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In 1993, with 700,000 members, the Yoido Full Gospel Church, was the world's largest congregation recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. [13] Despite the drain of members to the satellite churches, however, new recruits by the mother church – brought in through the vast cell network – have made up for the losses, and membership ...
The Leadership Network contains a directory of all Christian megachurches of the world (excluding Canada and USA). [5] This global list has over 270 megachurches. The Hartford Institute has compiled directories in Canada and the USA. The US list has more than 1,668 megachurches [6] [7] and the Canadian list 22. [8]
This is a list of the largest megachurches in the United States with an attendance of more than 10,000 weekly, sometimes also termed a gigachurch. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to The Hartford Institute's database, approximately 50 churches had attendance ranging from 10,000 to 47,000 in 2010. [ 3 ]
Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. [1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022.
In 2007, the largest megachurch in the world by attendance was South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church, an Assemblies of God (Pentecostal) church, with more than 830,000 members. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Graha Bethany Nginden , is a megachurch which is one of the largest churches in Surabaya , Indonesia and Southeast Asia .
A megachurch affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship having 2,000 or more worshippers for a typical weekly service. According to a 1996 statistic, nearly one in ten megachurches in the United States are affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God. [1]
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception remains the largest Roman Catholic church in North America, one of the 10 largest churches in the world. Its design was based on ...
All Souls Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.It is one of the largest UU congregations in the world. All Souls Unitarian Church was founded in 1921 by two leading Tulsans from families with Unitarian roots: [2] Richard Lloyd Jones, [3] the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune daily newspaper, whose father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, had served as secretary of ...