In 1898 Eusebi Guell, a leading industrialist commissioned the architect Antoni Gaudi to design a church for the textile estate that he founded in the municipality of Santa Coloma de Cervello in 1890. In 1908 building work began and took time till 1914 when the Guell family informed Gaudi that it would no longer fund the works and Gaudi abandoned the project. The ambitious project, which foresaw two naves, an upper and a lower, to be completed with various lateral turrets and a central dome 40 meters high, remained unfinished. The church represents a high point in Gaudis work. For the first time, almost all of his architectural innovations are combined in this building.
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