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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 list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
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 .
The church has been built without pillars. It is ranked among the largest Christian worship places in Asia. Lincoln Cathedral: 5,000 (estimated) [63] 1185–1311 Lincoln, England United Kingdom: Anglican (Church of England) St. Mary's Church: 5,000 [citation needed] 155,000 [64] 1343–1502 Gdańsk Poland: Catholic Largest brick church in the world
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 .
David Yonggi Cho (Korean: 조용기; 14 February 1936 – 14 September 2021 as Paul Yungi Cho) was a South Korean Pentecostal Pastor.He was the founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which he started in a tent with 5 people (including his future mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil and her children as its first members), which eventually became the world's largest congregation ...
Myungsung literally means "Voice (Sung in Korean) of Myungil-dong" (now Myeongil-dong). [3]The church was founded in 1980. Because there were many farms and orchards around the church, it had been renovated and developed into a huge [clarification needed] housing complex by the mid 1980s.
Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. 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.