Sagrada Família
Basilica under construction since 1882 in Barcelona, Spain
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- Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , or simply Sagrada Família , is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
- In 2005, Sagrada Família was added to an existing (1984) UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Works of Antoni Gaudí".
- On 19 March 1882, construction of Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar.
- Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the church's crypt.
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, or simply Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world and designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. In 2005, Sagrada Família was added to an existing (1984) UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Works of Antoni Gaudí". On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.
On 19 March 1882, construction of Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the church's crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.
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