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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.
Weekly attendance figures may be lower than the number of registered parishioners, and the differences in the way the churches operate and the way attendance is counted are given as reasons for not including Catholic churches in lists of megachurches. [3] Membership numbers of the following churches give only a very rough indication of size.
People's Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 4,800 Aguilas Centro Familiar Cristiano, Las Vegas, Nevada – 4,784 Canyon Hills Assembly of God, Bakersfield, California – 4,500
Some churches include their, sometimes loosely, affiliated churches in other places and even people that attend by electronic media. As many have several services on one day, there may be some overlap, with people attending more than one service. The exact number of people is seldom counted, [citation needed] thus estimation errors can occur ...
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Washington D.C. It is the largest Catholic church building in North America [2] and is also the tallest habitable building in Washington, D.C. [3] [4] [a] Its construction of Byzantine and Romanesque Revival architecture began on 23 September 1920.
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[151] [181] The cathedral has an interior floor area of 121,000 square feet (11,200 m 2) and can host 8,600 people. [181] [222] As of 2024, these dimensions make St. John's the fourth-largest Christian cathedral in the world and puts it in competition with Liverpool Cathedral as being the world's largest Anglican cathedral. [a]
Around 160,000 tents, 150,000 toilets and a 776-mile (1,249-kilometer) drinking water pipeline have been installed at a temporary tent city covering 4,000 hectares, roughly the size of 7,500 ...