Pope to Inaugurate Sagrada Família's Tallest Tower on Gaudí Centennial
The ceremony will mark the centennial of Antoni Gaudí’s death as construction continues on the basilica’s interior into the 2030s.
- On June 10, Pope Leo XIV will celebrate mass and bless the central tower of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, marking the 100th anniversary of architect Antoni Gaudi's death.
- Standing at 172.5 meters , the recently completed central tower brings the basilica to its maximum height, establishing it as the world's tallest church.
- Admirers call Gaudi "God's architect" and the Vatican declared him "venerable" last year, a significant step toward sainthood for the architect.
- Nearly 5 million people visited the basilica in 2025, making it Spain's most visited paid monument, with visitors from around the world witnessing the modernist masterpiece.
- Full completion of the basilica is expected in about a decade as the structure continues rising skyward, extending the architectural vision of the fervent Catholic into the future.
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On the 10th (local time), marking the 100th anniversary of the death of ‘Architect of God’ Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), a dedication ceremony for the ‘Tower of Jesus Christ’ was held at the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) Cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, which he designed. The Tower of Christ (172.5m) is the tallest and most important of the cathedral’s 18 spires, and Pope Leo XIV presided over a memorial mass for Gaudí and blessed the tower.
When Antoni Gaudí was hit by a tram while taking his daily walk on June 7, 1926, passersby were not eager to help him; they assumed he was a vagrant. When he was finally recognized in hospital the next day, it was too late for him to recover.
More than a century and a half since the Sagrada Familia was under construction in Spain. The inauguration of its highest tower by Pope Leo XIV, this Wednesday in Barcelona, is a historic event. A team of TF1 had access to the construction site in exclusivity. - La Sagrada Familia inaugurates its highest tower: discover the backdrop of the oldest construction site in the world (International).
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Barcelona's Sagrada Família has finally reached a historic milestone more than a century in the making. After 144 years of construction, the basilica has hit its final structural height of 566 feet, following the installation of a towering cross atop the central Tower of Jesus Christ. But even as celebrations unfold, a new and far more contentious fight is emerging just outside its walls. What should be a moment of triumph is now being overshado…
The Sagrada Família is to become the "Taj Mahal of Europe" when it comes to Barcelona's tourism manager. The locals consider the superlative temple less euphoric – the Pope's visit to Blessings does not help either.
On Wednesday, Antoni Gaudí's 100th anniversary, the 172.5-meter high Jesus Tower of the Sagrada Família is consecrated by the Pope. A visit to the highest church in the world. When the Catalan architect and visionary Antoni Gaudí dies on 10 June 1926 due to a tram accident, his life's work is far from complete. From the colossally planned cathedral, only the crypt of the lower church is finished, in which Gaudí is buried. Apsis and east facade w…
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