The beaked Our Lady of Guadalupe, is also known as the church of the mexicans. It is located in front of the berlin park.

Journalist Jorge Méndez was Felix Candela, born in Madrid in 1910, the architect of the work, dared to mix concrete with beauty with good results. The engineer lived in Mexico, a country where he went into exile when the Spanish Civil War broke out.

Those undulating shapes that characterize his buildings, such as the Church of La Milagrosa in Mexico or L'Oceanogràfic in Valencia, arrived in Madrid in 1962. In 1965 the construction of the church was completed. The Mexican architect also collaborated on the work Enrique de la Mora, the engineer José Antonio Torroja (son of Eduardo Torroja, of whom Candela was a disciple) and the Spanish architect José Ramón Azpiazu.

For Candela, Mexico proved to be the ideal place to build the structures that would make him famous: the so-called "concrete shells." These lightweight concrete roofs covered buildings economically and efficiently, as they are self-supporting and don't require large pillars. His hyperbolic paraboloid is the solution that allows for a round and diaphanous temple (supported by only four slender pillars). The enormous space still feels modern today. The paraboloids never meet at the apex of the roof, joined only by a delicate stained-glass window—the same windows that illuminate the church and lend it a very special, mystical atmosphere.

It seems that Candela built it thinking about the Tent of Meeting from the biblical story. In the Old Testament it is reported that, after being liberated from Egypt, the Israelites lived for 40 years in the desert. They formed a tent camp and fed on the manna that fell from heaven, the food sent by God. Moses chose a tent and pitched it at a distance from the camp. He called it Tent of Encounter with God, the inspiration for our church.

A abrazo.