April 2012: Foundation of the West Sacristy

Sagrada Família grows up. The structure of the five central towers of Christ and the four evangelists goes through the gigantic crane just installed. However, it grows downward. Next to the entrance of the Crypt, are finishing the foundation of the Sacristy of West, equal to what in the future will be in the North angle of the basilica, on the other side of the apse. In the photograph, one can see what remains of Gaudí's workshop, a small temporary building on the corner, spent their working hours and where the last months of his life he lived and sojourn. To do the sacristy, they had to cut a piece. Symbolically, the West Sacristy represents the Fall and its Tempuras. Tempuras are the blessings of God in every season of the annual cycle of life, in which we based the traditional forecast in countries with Christian roots. The annual cycle of nature in its praise to its Architect, the Lord of Life, is repeated every day for the Catholic Church with the Liturgy of the Hours. To the Fall, it corresponds Sixth, about 15 h., the origin of the Spanish word "siesta". The “Sagristia de Ponent”, vestry of West, then, is the fall and the Sixth liturgical hour in the full cycle of praise of Nature and of the Catholic Church to God, giving all the way around outside the Basilica of the Sagrada Família. Built this sacristy is very important, because there is a plaster model made in person by Gaudí. According to this model, the ground is a square of 17 x 17 m. However, he doesn’t made any model of the towers, just say that the vestry will be guide for architects that would come later to the towers. The sacristy is a small essay of the towers.