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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.
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]
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
The Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino was the first minor basilica to be canonically created, in 1783. The 1917 Code of Canon Law officially recognised churches using the title of basilica from immemorial custom as having such a right to the title of minor basilica. Such churches are referred to as immemorial basilicas. [2]
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 ...
The church is the largest cathedral and the second largest Catholic church in the world by interior area, after St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. [1] As a cathedral, it is the seat of the Archdiocese of Aparecida .
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 ...