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St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the largest church in the world. [1] Churches can be measured and compared in several ways. These include area, volume, length, width, height, or capacity. Several churches individually claim to be "the largest church", which may be due to any one of these criteria.
With an exterior area of 21,095 square metres (227,060 sq ft), [18] an interior area of 15,160 square metres (163,200 sq ft), [19] [20] St. Peter's Basilica is the largest Christian church building in the world by the two latter metrics and the second largest by the first as of 2016.
The largest church building in Poland and one of the largest in the world. 8: St. Peter's Basilica: 136.6 m (448 ft) [2] 1626: Vatican City Vatican City: Catholic: The largest church building in the world both by area and volume 9: St. Stephen's Cathedral
Guinness World Records lists it as the largest church in the world, having surpassed the previous record holder, Saint Peter's Basilica, upon completion. It has an area of 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft) [2] and is 158 metres (518 ft) tall. [3]
This list of the largest evangelical megachurches contains evangelical Christian megachurches by weekly attendance. Large churches from other denominations, like Catholicism , are not included as they are not deemed to belong to the megachurch phenomenon which by definition is part of Protestantism .
The tallest and largest (by volume) Orthodox church building in the world. St Peter's Basilica: 101.8 m [5] 117.57 m [6] ~110 m ~129 m 136.57 m [7] [8] 41.5 m 42 m Vatican City (city-state) Vatican City: The largest church building in the world. Highest maximum internal height of any church (from the floor to the ceiling of the lantern). AT&T ...
It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), in 2005 his work on Sagrada Família was added to an existing (1984) UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Works of Antoni Gaudí". [5] On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica. [6 ...
is the largest by volume (323,000 m 3) and area (6,000 m 2), the tallest (127 m at the moment), longest (126 m) and heaviest (420,000 tons) Eastern Orthodox Church building in the world. It is also one of the largest church buildings in the world. [6] [13] [11] [23] [50] has the world's tallest top dome outside (121 m) without the lantern and ...