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List Of Churches
Lists of church buildings cover church buildings, places of worship for Christians. General * List of church buildings, a selection of mosques among the most famous, worldwide ** List of largest church buildings ** List of longest church buildings ** List of tallest church buildings ** List of oldest church buildings This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving f ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Churches Lists of religious building lists ...
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List Of Largest Church Buildings
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. Criteria for inclusion * The reason the edifice was built was for Christian religious services (see Church (building) for more detail) ** Entries are included even if they ''currently'' do not function as a church. For example, the Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (; ; ; ; ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (; ), is a mosque and former Church (building), church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be successively ... is included; it was originally built as a church but currently operates as a mosque. ** Buildings that have become churches, but which were not built for that purpose, are not included; for example, the Lakewood Church building, which was originally built to be ...
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List Of Longest Church Buildings
This article lists the longest church buildings in the world as measured by various criteria. Scope The term ''church'' is open to interpretation and debate. However, for the purposes of this article, it will be used to mean any building which was built for the primary purpose of Christian worship, for any recognised denomination of Christianity. 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. List Note: this list is incomplete e.g. St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney is 107 metres long (ref. St. Mary's Cathedral website). Portugal's AlcobaƧa Monastery is 106 metres long. See also *List of largest church buildings *List of tallest churches *List of highest church naves *List of largest buildings *List of the largest Protestant churches A list is ...
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List Of Tallest Church Buildings
This list of tallest church buildings ranks Church (building), church buildings by height. From the Middle Ages until the advent of the skyscraper, Christian church buildings were often the History of the world's tallest buildings, world's tallest buildings. From 1311, when the spire of Lincoln Cathedral surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, until the Washington Monument was completed in 1884, a succession of church buildings held this title. *The tallest church building in the world is the Ulm Minster (161.5 m), the main Lutheran congregation in Ulm, Germany. *The tallest domed church building, as well as the tallest Catholic Church, Catholic, is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (158 m) in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. *The tallest cathedral as well as the tallest church building with two steeples is Cologne Cathedral (157.4 m) in Cologne, Germany. *The tallest domed cathedral as well as the tallest Eastern Orthodox Churc ...
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List Of Oldest Church Buildings
This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving freestanding buildings were purposely constructed for use by congregations (or used at an early date). The dates are the approximate dates when they were built and/or reconstructed and/or first used by Christian congregations for worship. The term ''church'' may be used in the sense of "Christian denomination" or in the singular as the Christian Church as a whole. The "church" (Greek , 'assembly') is traced to Pentecost and the beginning of the Christian mission in the first century and was not used in reference to a building. According to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building in the wor ...
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Lists Of Churches
Lists of church buildings cover church buildings, places of worship for Christians. General * List of church buildings, a selection of mosques among the most famous, worldwide ** List of largest church buildings ** List of longest church buildings ** List of tallest church buildings ** List of oldest church buildings This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving f ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Churches Lists of religious building lists ...
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