LEGO releases Sagrada Família model in honor of Gaudí, basilica’s completion

In honor of the completion of the main building of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, the toy company LEGO has released its largest-ever set — a 12,060 piece model of the iconic basilica.

The set, which is currently available for pre-order, was unveiled just days before Pope Leo’s anticipated visit to Barcelona to inaugurate the Tower of Jesus Christ, the basilica’s tallest and most recently completed tower. The LEGO set also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the death of Venerable Antoni Gaudí, Sagrada Família’s most renowned architect.

The massive model, which is part of the LEGO Architecture line, costs $800 and is set to be available by November 1.

According to Spanish news outlet La Razón, LEGO Architecture designer Rok Žgalin Kobe said that the project was an enormous undertaking.

“We felt an immense responsibility to do justice to Sagrada Família through this design,” he said. “Our goal was to honor Gaudí’s vision with the utmost respect, capturing the rhythm of basilica’s construction, its extraordinary complexity and ambition, and translating it into an immersive building experience.”

He highlighted the importance of maintaining precision and perspective in the model in order to remain faithful to the basilica, calling it a “unique design challenge.”

On X, one user celebrated the set as a “complete cultural victory,” posting, “It’s kinda cool the biggest Lego set ever is a Catholic church with a cross on top.”