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The passion façade of the Sagrada Familia represents the passion and the death of Jesus, and accordingly, has an austere and extraordinarily naked appearance, with geometric edged forms.

The sobriety of the façade is visible also by the presence of bone shaped columns and the sober sculptures carried out by Josep Maria Subirachs adding drama to the already deliberately sad Gaudí design.

The sculptures on the Passion façade stand out for their contrast with the background, free of ornaments and apparently composed of simple forms. In this way Gaudí wanted to symbolise the desolation, the pain and the death of Jesus Christ. From that idea, between 1986 and 2005 the sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs did the twelve stages of the Via Crucis.

As is befitting, unlike the Nativity façade there are no references to the joy of life, such as the ornamentation of flowers and animals, and the representation of the feeling of the irreversible loss of death is heightened. This dramatic doorway shows the sacrifice made by Jesus for human beings.