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April 1, 2024, by Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News
(OSV News) — After more than a century, construction of Spain's Basilica of the Holy Family in Barcelona, known as Sagrada Familia for its Spanish name, will be completed in 2026, the foundation overseeing the project announced. During a March 20 press conference announcing the publication of the Sagrada Familia Foundation's 2023 annual report, Esteve Camps, the foundation's executive chairman, said construction of the basilica's Chapel of the Assumption will be completed in 2025, while the tower of Jesus Christ is set to be finished in 2026. The completion of the basilica in 2026 will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of its designer, Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. Construction of the sacred edifice began in 1882, and it…


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