The Church of the Conception () is a
Neogothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
Catholic church
in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
,
Spain
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It is located on Calle Goya at the corner of Calle de Núñez de Balboa, and its construction was carried out between 1912 and 1914. The architect in charge of the church's design was until his death in 1910. Another architect, , finished the work. The tower—with a height of — is topped with an iron
spire
A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires a ...
, itself crowned by a sculpture of the
Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
. King
Alfonso XIII of Spain and his consort Queen
Victoria Eugenie attended the church's opening; the ceremony took place 11 May 1914.
The building has undergone several renovations: in the 1950s, in 1985 and 2013.
On 8 July 1977 ''
Boletín Oficial del Estado'' published a report requesting the church's declaration as ''
Bien de Interés Cultural
A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries.
The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" (" goods" in the economic sense) and incl ...
''.
See also
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Catholic Church in Spain
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List of oldest church buildings
This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving ...
References
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Roman Catholic churches in Madrid
Gothic Revival architecture in Madrid
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Spain
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1914
Buildings and structures in Salamanca District, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...
Gothic Revival church buildings in Spain