Saint James the Apostle Church in Santiago Atitlan

The church is built on a Maya temple site by Spaniards during their conquest in Guatemala. There’s still an interesting mixture of Maya gods inside the church. There’s a shrine to priest Stanley Francis Rother – the American priest from Oklahoma, who was one of the 10 priests to be killed in Guatemala in 1981 during the brutal civil war. — in Santiago Atitlán.