LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever

When work on the Sagra­da Família first began in 1882, the orig­i­nal archi­tect could hard­ly have imag­ined that, 144 years lat­er, the ambi­tious under­tak­ing would still be under­way. Famous­ly, the Cata­lan archi­tect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) spent the last four decades of his life design­ing and build­ing the Goth­ic-inspired basil­i­ca in Barcelona. Then came the Span­ish Civ­il War (1936–1939), which destroyed many of his archi­tec­tur­al plans, leav­ing suc­ces­sive gen­er­a­tions of archi­tects to piece togeth­er Gaudí’s vision and move the project for­ward.

At long last, ear­li­er this year, builders com­plet­ed the cen­tral Tow­er of Jesus Christ, which stands 566 feet high, mak­ing the Sagra­da Família the tallest church in the world. Although work on the Glo­ry façade still remains, the basil­i­ca has reached a near-com­plete state—complete enough for Lego to roll out the offi­cial Sagra­da Família Lego set. At 12,060 pieces, it’s the largest Lego set ever made, and it lets you build the Sagra­da Família sec­tion by sec­tion, fol­low­ing the same order as the orig­i­nal archi­tects.

It then moves on to the naves and the West­ern Sac­risty. Com­plete the 6 tow­ers and fin­ish the basil­i­ca with the East­ern Sac­risty and the Glo­ry façade.” With the video above, you can watch the build­ing of the Lego basil­i­ca, com­press­ing hours of work into 10 min­utes. The Lego set will be avail­able on Novem­ber 1, 2026.

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