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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 megachurches may quite be different from traditional evangelical congregations where clear membership records are maintained, to define who has legal right to vote in the church assembly, who can be appointed to public offices and who belongs to the flock under direct pastoral care, and the pastor can often be replaced.
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.
Unification Church (aka Moonies) – 1–2 million [318] World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church – 0.003 million [citation needed] La Luz del Mundo – 1–5 million (see La Luz del Mundo#Membership statistics) Unitarian Universalism – 0.6 million [319] Unitarian Universalist Association – 0.1 million [320]
Enrollment grew to over 10,000, and Angelus Temple was advertised as the largest single Christian congregation in the world. [51] According to church records, the Temple received 40 million visitors within the first seven years. [52] Despite her earlier rooting in Pentecostalism, her church reflected interdenominational beliefs.
Lutheranism is present on all inhabited continents with an estimated 80 million adherents, [3] out of which 74.2 million are affiliated with the Lutheran World Federation.A major movement that first began the Reformation, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant branches claiming around 80 million out of 920 million Protestants. [4]
Touro Synagogue. Newport, Rhode Island. Billed as America's oldest synagogue and a National Historic Site, Touro Synagogue was built in response to the need of the area's mid-18th century Jewish ...
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.