More than 8,000 square meters, six floors, a 30-meter cross and a plot donated by the City Council of Madrid. The capital’s archdiocese plans to build a church in the Valdebebas area, and its design has just become known. It was property manager Gilos Valdebebas who received the documentation, photographs and plans of what they want to become the only church in the area, which will be built on a plot of land that will soon be handed over by the council and cost more than €4.6 million.

The plot will be yours for 75 years even after submission to the competition. “Aimed at constructing a center of worship and developing additional social activities for the benefit of churches, denominations and/or non-profit religious associations,” the bases said, for which this was the only candidate favored.

Images of the project that the Archdiocese of Madrid wants to build in Valdebebas.

Although the final signature has not yet taken place, according to Eldiario.es It will come into force this week, so they will have free rein to start construction whenever they want on the building, which, after the project became known, was described as the “Iglesia Corte Inglés” due to its resemblance to the famous Spanish shopping malls. centers.

It will be built on a site located at the intersection of Secundino Suazo and Manuel Fraga Iribarne avenues, which until recently was supposed to be the cultural center of the area, where its neighbors are still waiting for the construction of a medical center and institute, but whose location has been changed to a smaller plot of land , located very close to it.

The total area of ​​the house is 6,083.12 square meters and the built-up area is 8,516.36. The archdiocese appears intent on approaching that maximum with a six-story building whose most striking feature is a giant cross, 30 meters high and 12 meters wide, that will be inserted into the rear façade.

The building will be divided, according to the same real estate consultant, as follows: on the -2nd floor there will be parking for 90 cars, an assembly hall for more than 400 people and a dining room; Outside there will be a basketball court and a padel tennis court. There were rumors on the -1st floor about the construction of a kindergarten, but since then Valdebebas Threads They claim that this option has been abandoned and its use is still unknown.

And we keep going up. The ground floor will house the church, the temple itself, which will be allocated more than 1,000 square meters, as well as a vestibule of 500 square meters, surrounded by various parish halls. On the floor above there will be more parish halls, as well as premises for Caritas with a terrace of 123.63 square meters.

The remaining floors, from the second to the fourth, are much smaller: about 364 square meters inside plus almost the same area outside, and their function, they predict, will be classrooms.

The construction period is calculated at 24 months from the moment of laying the first stone, although the exact start date of work is not yet known. In the Valdebebas district of Madrid, this news caused a variety of opinions, especially when it became known what the building would be like. Neighbors have been demanding basic services for years for the population, which is already approaching 30,000 residents, most of whom are children.