La iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en Elche. Un ejemplo de la introducción del hormigón en la arquitectura sacra

Abstract

The church of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús located in Elche (Alicante, Spain) is perhaps the building designed by the architect Antonio Serrano Peral whose architectonic value is least well-known and least recognized in the field of the architectural history of the city, as it should have had. However, its construction is an interesting example of religious architecture, being recognized by the jury of the Ministry of National Education in 1.957 at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where the architect was prized with the first class medal in the architecture section, due to the mentioned design. Thanks to the analysis of the church..s building history and the used construction..s systems, it is detected that the layout of the floor is based on the Greek cross constructive model of Santa Sofia, detecting also the introduction of concrete in the Byzantine dome, getting along with masonry and brick factory.