This formidable church dominates the south side of Parque Principal. Inside, to the left of the entrance is a memorial to Juan José Gerardi, the socially progressive priest who as bishop of Quiché witnessed widespread human rights abuses here. Soon after he released a report about these atrocities, Gerardi himself was assassinated. Several hundred crosses around the monument memorialize the Nebaj inhabitants who were murdered during a massacre in the early 1980s.
