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A Monument to Patience
By Linda Tancs
Arguably one of the most admired architectural wonders in the world, Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, represents a 144-year construction journey. Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, ongoing work for over a century rendered it the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. But construction reached its zenith recently with the raising of the colossal cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, a four-armed cross of glass and white enameled ceramic roughly 55 feet tall and 10 feet wide. At an overall height of 566 feet, the basilica is now the world’s tallest Catholic church. Gaudi is buried in a crypt in the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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