La Sagrada Familia

The Basilica of La Sagrada Família aims to be a welcoming place for prayer and reflection, a place to express the love of God and men. The church is still being constructed thanks to the donations received from all over the world. In 1874 the Spiritual Association of the Devotees of St Joseph, whose president was Josep Maria Bocabella, promoted the construction of an expiatory church dedicated to the Holy Family, and in 1882 the foundation stone of the crypt was laid under the direction of the architect Francisco de P. del Villar. He was relieved a year and half later by Antoni Gaudí, who devoted forty-three years of his life to this work, the last twelve almost exclusively. Later on a generous anonymous donation was received and Gaudí turned the original project upside down to create this exceptional church, innovatory in its forms, structures and construction. Today building continues in accordance with his ideas. At present the church has two facades dedicated to the Birth of Jesus and the Passion of Christ. When it is complete, however, it will have one more, the third, referring to the Glory of Jesus resurrected. It will also have eighteen towers: twelve dedicated to the apostles, four to the evangelists, one to the Virgin Mary and another, which will rise to a height of 170 m, to Jesus. The team working on the project, the ones who make it possible, number over three hundred. They are the ones who will see that the interior is finished in 2010 so that services can be held there and in 2030 this great work by Gaudí will be complete. Today it is a symbolic landmark of Barcelona, and from now on you too are part of all this.

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