History of Sagrada Família

Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, or simply Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world and designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. In 2005, Sagrada Família was added to an existing (1984) UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Works of Antoni Gaudí". On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.