List Of Tallest Church Buildings In The World
From the Middle Ages until the advent of the skyscraper, Christian church buildings were often the world's tallest buildings. Starting in 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. If it is completed, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia will become the tallest church in the world, at 170 m (558 ft) tall.
This list does not include church buildings that incorporate a significant portion of space to non-church uses, such as the Chicago Temple Building. It does not include structures from other religions, although some may have taller elements. For example, the minaret of Casablanca's Hassan II Mosque is 210 m (689 ft) tall,
The church buildings are ordered based on their tallest recorded height in history. Churches in italics and marked with H (for historical) either no longer exist or no longer stand to their original full height as listed. When the current shorter height still is significant, church buildings may be mentioned a second time on the list. To view the tallest present churches, click the sorting button in the H column.
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