Altarpiece by Josep Llimona, Antonio Gaudí Frame, Crypt Sagrada Família, Barcelona

Altarpiece by Josep Llimona, Antonio Gaudí Frame, Crypt Sagrada Família, Barcelona

Altarpiece by Josep Llimona, Antonio Gaudí Frame, Crypt Sagrada Família, Barcelona


The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is a church with five naves and a crossing with three, forming a Latin cross. The interior measurements are: nave and apse, 90 m; crossing, 60 m; width of the central nave, 15 m; side naves 7.5 m, total main nave, 45 m; width of the crossing, 30m.

Apse

The east end of the church is semicircular in shape and consists of seven chapels distributed around an ambulatory and the central space with the altar and the presbytery. The are two spiral staircases at each end. It will be crowned by a tower.

Crypt

Subterránean space occupied beneath the apse and, therefore, shares the same structure. The crypt is about nine metres underground; it was excavated with just two tools: pick and shovel.The foundations and the interior of walls and vaults were made of masonry - the most common construction system at the end of the 19th century-, consisting of a mixture of chipped or semi-chipped stones, limestone mortar and sand. The exposed stone elements, such as columns, capitals, arches or vaults, are
carved in the workshop and later put in place.

Heritage

On 7 June 1926, at the junction of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes and Carrer de Bailèn, Gaudí was knocked down by a number 30 tram. Seriously injured, he was taken to the Hospital de la Santa Creu, where he died three days later. His body was buried on 12 June in the Carmen chapel in the crypt of the Sagrada Família.




http://www.sagradafamilia.cat



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD



Works of Antoni Gaudí on UNESCO World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=320