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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.
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 .
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.
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
One of the largest Eastern Orthodox Cathedrals Note: this list is incomplete e.g. St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney is 107 metres long (ref. St. Mary's Cathedral website). Portugal's Alcobaça Monastery is 106 metres long.
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]
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.
World Communion of Reformed Churches: Reformed: 2010 General Secretary Najla Kassab: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany Worldwide 86,376,544 [n 3] [7] Brings together Calvinists [n 4] from all over the world, and is the largest of such organizations. World Assemblies of God Fellowship: Pentecostal: 1988 General Superintendent and Chairman Doug E. Clay