La Sagrada Familia, Holy Family, Barcelona, Spain, Antoni Gaudi

La Sagrada Familia, By Antoni Gaudi (Barcelona)

La Sagrada Familia is a very large catholic church in Barcelona and Antoni Gaudi's most famous works. The church has been under construction since 1882. It was never finished in Gaudi's life time. Civil war in Spain later destroyed some of the building and Gaudi's original drawings are partly missing. Therefore today the style of the so called Wall of Death, and Ressurection of Christ, is completely changed. The Facade of Birth was almost finished in Gaudi's time giving us the opportunity to see what style that Gaudi intended for the church. There are two more facades, The Facade of Passion and of Glory. The sculptures on the Glory Facade will represent man in general and his place in God's creation, showing his origin, purpose and what he must do to accomplish it. On the passion facade, the statues stand out but there are no ornaments in the background. The forms are also very simple. In this way he wanted to depict the pain that Jesus went through to his death. The Church is expected to be finished in twenty years from now. According to other opinions, it could take even more years. The money for the construction comes partly from the fees that visitors pay. Another source of finance are donations that people all over the world make. Gaudi was deeply religious and Sagrada Familia gave him the chance to express his faith. The church is full of religious symbols. Gaudi also found inspiration in nature, and you can see it clearly in the architecture inside the church, with columns branching like trees. When the church will be finished, there will be 18 towers with the inscription alpha and omega, the beginning and end of life, on each tower.

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