It was built as a place of worship for the people on a hillside in a manufacturing area in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, near Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).

The plan for the building consisted of constructing two naves, an upper and a lower, two towers, and one forty-meter-high central dome.

Collectively, these sites are known as the Works of Antoni Gaudí, and show his "exceptional creative contribution to the development of architecture and building technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[2] As seen in the planning of La Sagrada Família, Gaudí hung hemp ropes attached to lead-filled sacks from the ceiling.

All that remains of the model for Church of Colònia Güell is an image in a book written by architect Josep Francesc Ràfols i Fontanals.

[1] This method of planning led to the development of a new architectural vocabulary, such as hyperbolic paraboloids and hyperboloids, which are prominent elements in many of Gaudi's designs.