Passion Façade with the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Sagrada Familia...

Barcelona: Sagrada Familia...

The Passion façade is recently built (1978). Located in the street Sardenya and oriented to west. This façade represents the passion and the death of Jesus. According with this function, it has an austere and extraordinarily naked appearance, with geometric edged forms.

It is composed by a six columns portico, with three doors, of which the central one is divided into two by a mullion with the Alpha and Omega signs among the four bell towers.
As the Nativity and Glory façade, the three entries of the Passion one are dedicated to the three Christian virtues.

The sobriety of the façade is visible also by the presence of bone shaped columns and the sober sculptures carried out by Josep Maria Subirachs adding drama to the already deliberately sad Gaudí design.

The whole respects the initial project of Gaudí with regard to its general characteristics, but the details are obviously adapted to the modern aesthetics. In this sense, the very symbolic iconography of Subirachs represents a total break with the figurative concept of the opposed façade (Nativity).

De westfaçade is de façade van de Passie die gaat over het lijden van Christus. Deze kant is een halve eeuw na de oostkant gebouwd en is dus in een veel modernere stijl: "bekleed" met veel "hoekige" sculpturen. Boven in het portaal hangt een sculptuur van Jezus (zonder de traditionele lendendoek) aan het kruis.