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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 is a complete list of basilicas of the Catholic Church. A basilica is a church with certain privileges conferred on it by the Pope . Not all churches with "basilica" in their title actually have the ecclesiastical status, which can lead to confusion, since it is also an architectural term for a church-building style.
This includes all cathedrals (the seat of a bishop), basilicas, and other types of churches. It does not include temples of other religions, e.g. mosques, synagogues. It does include at least one building, Hagia Sophia, which was built as a church but currently operates as a mosque.
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]
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 ...
Formerly the second largest mosque in the world, before being converted into a cathedral during the 13th century 91.2 m (299 ft) Church of St. Magdalene: 1820: Alpnach Switzerland 91.2 m (299 ft) [16] Our Lady's Church (Frauenkirche) 1743: Dresden-Innere Altstadt Germany: Destroyed by bombing in 1945 and rededicated in 2005 91.1 m (299 ft) St ...
Only the major basilicas may prefix their titles with the adjective sacrosancta (most holy). [7] St. John Lateran, also called the Lateran Basilica. Since it is the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, in the tradition of the Catholic Church, it has claims as the Mother Church of the world.
[32] [33] Earlier basilicas mostly had wooden roofs, but this basilica dispensed with timber trusses and used instead cross-vaults made from Roman bricks and concrete to create one of the ancient world's largest covered spaces: 80 m long, 25 m wide, and 35 m high. [3] [32] The vertices of the cross-vaults, the largest Roman examples, were 35 m ...