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The Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor Expiatory Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located on the summit of Mount Tibidabo in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building is the work of the Spanish Catalan architect Enric Sagnier and was completed by his son Josep Maria Sagnier i Vidal. The construction of the church, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, lasted from 1902 to 1961.
The external appearance of the church is of a walled fortress of stone of Montjuïc, chaired by a monumental neo-Gothic church with a monumental double staircase air. The complex consists of a lower crypt and upper church with a central sole with a dome on eight columns. The whole style is based on a Romanesque line combined with the temple of Gothic verticality, covered with an octagonal dome crowned with the image of the Sacred Heart, original works of Frederic Marès (destroyed in 1936) and replaced by another of Josep Miret, of 1950.
The building is square, from which arise three apses, and presents a large central tower and four low, defining the four corners of the square, in which were placed statues of the Twelve Apostles, of Josep Miret. The main facade has three bodies, the central wider, chaired by the figure of the Archangel Michael in the arch of the main entrance, and John Bosco in the above pediment. Above the left door is the statue of Teresa of Ávila and on the right, Marguerite Marie Alacoque. Above the door is opened a gallery of arches with tracery.
The interior is divided into three naves with semicircular apses, with stained glasses and four rose windows on the facades. In the main altar stands the great crucifix, work by Joan Puigdollers. The windows of the presbytery are dedicated to Pius X, John the Evangelist, Marguerite Marie Alacoque, Paul the Apostle and John Bosco. The left altar has five stained glasses dedicated to various Marian devotions: the Virgin of Antipolo (Philippines), Our Lady of Luján (Argentina), the Assumption of Mary, the Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexico) and the Our Lady of Charity (Cuba).
The windows of the four towers contain the Latin phrase tibi dabo (“I’ll give you”), by the name of the mountain. At the level of the choir include founding saints: Marcellin Champagnat and Jean-Baptiste de La Salle on both sides of the presbytery, and Anthony Mary Claret, Joseph Calasanctius, John Bosco and Maria Domenica Mazzarello next to the main facade. The windows of the four facades are dedicated to Francis de Sales, Pius XI, Ignatius of Loyola, Francisco Javier, Pius IX, Rose of Lima, Leo XIII and Pius XII. The eight stained glasses of the dome depicting scenes from the life of Jesus.
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