What Is La Sagrada Familia?

In the 1880s, Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí took over the design and construction of a new church for the city of Barcelona. That church is still unfinished to this day, and yet is already recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most important buildings in the world. The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia is a Roman Catholic basilica in Spain and one of the most recognizable, lauded, and controversial structures in the last several centuries of architecture. Despite being under construction for over a century, the basilica remains incomplete due to the complexity of Gaudí's designs and a few other historical factors, but that's okay. Gaudí, known in history as 'God's Architect' for his incredible religious structures, was said to have remarked that his client was in no hurry. La Sagrada Familia would be completed in its own time, and a century later we still wait to see when that time will come.