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Since 2013, AVE high-speed trains have passed near Sagrada Família through a tunnel that runs beneath the centre of Barcelona. The tunnel's construction, which began on 26 March 2010, was controversial. The Ministry of Public Works of Spain (Ministerio de Fomento) claimed the project posed no risk to the church.
Only catedral in Spain and first one outside Rome to be consecrated by a pope. [59] Cathedral of the Armed Forces: Madrid Madrid: Military Archbishopric of Spain: 1985 [60] Cathedral Basilica of the Incarnation: Málaga Andalusia: Málaga: 1588 [61] Metropolitan Co-Cathedral of Saint Mary the Major: Mérida Extremadura: Mérida-Badajoz: 2006 [f]
The Cathedral Church of St Andrew and St Demetrius (Spanish: Iglesia Catedral de los Santos Andrés y Demetrio) is a Greek Orthodox cathedral situated on Nicaragua Street in the neighbourhood of Hispanoamérica, district of Chamartín, Madrid, Spain, which belongs to the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. [1]
This was followed by the first church in AD 829 and then in AD 899 by a pre-Romanesque church, ordered by king Alfonso III of León, [5] which caused the gradual development of this major place of pilgrimage. [6] In 997 the early church was reduced to ashes by Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir (938–1002), army commander of the caliph of Córdoba. St ...
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral (Catedral de Sevilla), is a Catholic cathedral and former mosque in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. [1]
Church ruins in Spain (12 P) Collegiate churches in Spain (1 C, 8 P) F. Former churches in Spain (1 C, 21 P) Fortified church buildings in Spain (10 P) G.
The first permanent congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Spain was established in 1948. As of 2022, the Church reported 63,524 members in 136 congregations in Spain, [ 1 ] making it the second largest body of Church members in Europe behind the United Kingdom .
The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875–1998 (1998; reprint 2012) Jedin, Hubert, and John Dolan, eds. History of the Church, Volume X: The Church in the Modern Age (1989) Lannon, Frances. Privilege, Persecution, and Prophecy. The Catholic Church in Spain 1875–1975. (Oxford UP, 1987) Payne, Stanley G. Spanish Catholicism: An Historical Overview ...