Gaudi's Cathedral to Formally Open in Barcelona, Spain
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
SPAIN---After 128 years, on Sunday, November 7, Antonio Gaudi's cathedral in Barcelona will formally be opened as the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia. Pope Benedict will lead the consecration mass before 7,000 people. Begun in 1882, the design and construction of this church so consumed Gaudi that his body was interned there at his death in 1926. It's perhaps the biggest and longest incomplete work of religious art in the world because even though it opens for mass this Sunday, the cathedral is still not expected to be completed until 2033.
SPAIN---After 128 years, on Sunday, November 7, Antonio Gaudi's cathedral in Barcelona will formally be opened as the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia. Pope Benedict will lead the consecration mass before 7,000 people. Begun in 1882, the design and construction of this church so consumed Gaudi that his body was interned there at his death in 1926. It's perhaps the biggest and longest incomplete work of religious art in the world because even though it opens for mass this Sunday, the cathedral is still not expected to be completed until 2033.
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