June 10, 2026 – 100 years after Antoni Gaudi, the architect of this masterpiece returned home to heaven — Basilica Sagrada Familia is declared finished and finally inaugurated by Pope Leo XIV; marking by a spectacular festival of lights. Basilica Sagrada Familia sits perfectly amid city developed communities. This project makes us admires what a wonderful God’s creation that gets along with Gaudi’s passions in life, architecture , nature and religion that goes perfectly with his motto in his efforts finishing the project –‘the client is God and God is not in a hurry’– turned this project as an on-going architectural project study that get global admiration.
Antoni Gaudi considered every detail of his creations and combines crafts such as ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry as well introduced new techniques in materials’ treatment called trencadis, a technique uses waste ceramic pieces. Sagrada Familia is influenced by neo-Gothic art and oriental techniques driven into a unique style inspired by natural forms. In between of 1985 and 2005, seven of his works were declared as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The canonization was opened in the Archdiocese of Barcelona in 2003 and Pope Francis authorized Gaudi’s declaration as Venerable in April 2025
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