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The church is the tallest cathedral anywhere and has the tallest pair of spires. St Martin's Church, Landshut, spire whose Brick Gothic tower was finished in 1507, makes it the tallest brick-built church in the world, and the second tallest (unreinforced) brick building anywhere.
Second-tallest church in the USA and New York City; third-tallest in North America; tenth-tallest in the Americas; spires completed in 1888, the tallest in New York City from 1880 to 1890. [ 11 ] 90
The tallest building in the world, as of 2025, is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The title of "world's tallest building" has been held by various buildings in modern times, including Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England, and the Empire State Building and the original World Trade Center, both in New York City.
Historically, the world's tallest man-made structure was the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which held the position for over 3,800 years [3] until the construction of Lincoln Cathedral in 1311. The Strasbourg Cathedral in France , completed in 1439, was the world's tallest building until 1874.
They were capped with wooden spires covered with lead in 1420, but by 1807 they were dismantled. [20] With its spire the tower reputedly reached a height of 525 ft (160 m), making it the world's tallest structure at the time, [ 21 ] [ 22 ] though some consider this doubtful.
It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by the 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 ...
The original cathedral had two towers on the west façade, and then a central tower was built in the 14th century, topped by a wooden spire, which made it the tallest structure in the world for two hundred years. The other two towers were also given spires and raised in height. The great spire fell during a windstorm and was not replaced.
A central spire from after 1311 until 1548 had a reputed height of 160 m (520 ft), which would have made the cathedral the tallest structure in the world during the spire's existence. 89 Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist: 24.3 m (80 ft) Spokane: United States: 90 Church of Our Lady: 24 m (79 ft) Dordrecht: Netherlands: 90 Canterbury Cathedral