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You are asking about a building, my friend. Not the church. The church isn't a building.
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St Peter Basilica Haggia Sophia, now a museum, was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years Seville Cathedral in 1520 largest Gothic .
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The largest church is the Catholic Church with over a billion members.
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In the first century, a Roman emperor built an amphitheater on the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. In this arena, many early Christians were put to death — including Saint Peter, the first pope of the Catholic Church. Centuries later, a church was built on the site of the amphitheater, over the supposed site of Saint Peter's grave. Then in the 16th century, when this church was crumbling, Pope Julius II began to build a new church on the site, a church so large that it could hold 50,000 people at one time! The church was called Saint Peter's, and today it is the largest church in the world. The main section of the church is almost 700 feet long and 450 feet wide. It is topped by a roof 15 stories high — big enough to completely enclose most of the world's large cathedrals! The church's dome, which was designed by artist Michaelangelo, is over 400 feet tall and 138 feet across. Inside the church are 44 altars and 390 large statues! Saint Peter's is so large that it took about 150 ...
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Asked in Puja & Rituals at 12:40 PM on December 18, 2008 Tags: largest, church, world
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Ulm Cathedral, the tallest church in the world, with a steeple measuring 161.53 m (530 ft) and containing 768 steps
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this isn't exactly the answer to your question, but, in medieval times, the largest church was the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople. After the Muslim occupation, it was turned into a mosque, but its mosaics were never destroyed. Now it has been restored, but as a museum. the Turks will not let it be used as a church again.
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