KAOS TEMPLE
Kaos Temple in Llanera, Asturias. Okuda Instagram

Artist Okuda San Miguel transformed Spain's historic church of Santa Barbara into one amazing skate temple. According to Verkami, the skate place, is an old chapel situated in “Llanera” Asturias and it had been abandoned for over half a century, after a pack of local skaters called the Church Brigade turned the space in a skate park and a sacred place for skate lovers.

The church was built in 1912 and designed by Austrian architect Manuel del Busto for a few local businessmen. But they abandoned the area in the 1930s during the Civil War, "I passed by it and felt sad when I saw it in those circumstances, a space unused. I wanted to rescue it and give it a use, and the first thing that came to mind was a skateboard ramp," Skater Ernesto Fernandez, told Fox News Latino.

"A group of friends of mine we came together and each put of their own money, a monthly amount — we were financing it ourselves, that was the idea," Fernandez told Fox News Latino, "the glass for the windows we got through a friend who works installing windows. He got them from a job, he kept the old one he had replaced and gave it to us. One of the guys from the Church Brigade is a professional draftsman and he knows about design so he is the one who designed the ramp."

As the project became popular it attracted the interest of RedBull and famed Madrid street artist Okuda San Miguel, watch the video below to see an interview with Okuda where he talks about his inspiration for Kaos Temple.

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