Barcelona’s well-known basilica, the Sagrada Familia, is ready to be accomplished in 2026 after greater than a century of development, based on an annual report launched final week.
The report mentioned that the church is within the “remaining stage of development,” which started final yr with the completion of its towers of the Evangelists. It added that the work is underway for the Chapel of the Assumption and tower of Jesus Christ.
“The Chapel of the Assumption is anticipated to be completed in 2025 and the tower of Jesus Christ, in 2026,” the report mentioned.
The report famous that the Sagrada Familia had 4,707,367 guests in 2023, and revenue of over $137 million. Fifty-two p.c of the funds went towards development.
The basilica took form from the imaginative and prescient of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, who took over constructing plans in 1883 after development started the yr prior. He was a religious Catholic and believed the church’s development was his approach to make amends with God for the sins of the fashionable world, “60 Minutes” reported.
His work on the Sagrada Familia’s Nativity façade and crypt have been acknowledged as UNESCO websites.
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Gijs van Hensbergen, who wrote a biography on Gaudí, advised “60 Minutes” in 2013 that he wished to “write the historical past of the entire of the Catholic religion in a single constructing.” Particularly, he pointed to the church’s ceiling as “a placing show of Gaudí’s engineering genius.”
“He wished the inside of his church to have the texture of a forest as a result of that is the place he believed man might really feel closest to God,” van Hensbergen advised “60 Minutes.” “And whenever you look upwards, you may see Gaudí’s columns branching out like timber.”
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Gaudí died in 1926. Since then, a number of architects and website managers have labored to complete the basilica in time for the a centesimal anniversary of Gaudí’s loss of life.
It’s presently the most important unfinished Catholic church on the earth. When it is accomplished, it is set to be the tallest church on the earth, beating out the Ulm Minster in Germany.
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