List of tallest churches in the world
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From the Middle Ages until the advent of the skyscraper, Christian churches have been among 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 constructed in 1884, a succession of churches held this title. If it is ever completed, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia will become the tallest church in the world, at 170 m (558 ft) tall.
This list does not include structures from other religions. For example, the minaret of Casablanca's Hassan II Mosque is 210 m (689 ft) tall, nor does it include church buildings that are not churches, such as the Chicago Temple Building.
The churches 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, churches may be mentioned a second time on the list. To view the tallest present churches, click the sorting button in the H column.
| Height metres (feet) | H |
Name | Completion | City | Country | Comment |
| 161.5 m (530 ft) | Münster | 1890 | Ulm |  Germany |
768 stairs going up to a height of 143 m, intended to be shorter, but size increased in order to outdo Cologne Cathedral; largest Protestant Gothic church in Germany | |
| 159.7 m (524 ft) | H | Lincoln Cathedral | 1311 | Lincoln |  England |
today 83 m - spire collapsed in 1549; tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549. Was 103 metres from 1549 to 1807. |
| 158.4 m (520 ft) | H | St. Olaf | 1519 | Tallinn |  Estonia |
today 123m - spire destroyed by lightning in 1625; tallest building in the world from 1549 to 1625 |
| 158.0 m (518 ft) | Our Lady of Peace Basilica | 1989 | Yamoussoukro |  Côte d'Ivoire |
largest church in the world (disputed with St Peter's Basilica); world's tallest domed church, the dome being lower but the cross taller than that of St Peter's Basilica, Rome; tallest Roman Catholic church in the world; tallest church in Africa | |
| 157.4 m (516 ft) | Dom | 1880 | Cologne | Germany |
tallest building in the world from 1880 to 1884; largest Gothic church in Germany; tallest Roman Catholic cathedral in the world | |
| 153.0 m (502 ft) | H | Saint-Pierre Cathedral[1] | 1569 | Beauvais |  France |
tower collapsed in 1573 |
| 151.0 m (495 ft) | H | St. Mary's church | 1478 | Stralsund | Germany |
today 104m - spire destroyed by lightning in 1647; tallest building in the world from 1625 to 1647 |
| 151.0 m (495 ft) | Notre-Dame Cathedral | 1876 | Rouen | France |
tallest building in the world from 1876 to 1880; tallest church in France | |
| 150.0 m (493 ft) | H | Old St. Paul's Cathedral | 1240 | London | England |
spire destroyed by lightning in 1561; whole cathedral destroyed in Great Fire of London in 1666 |
| 147.3 m (483 ft) | St Nikolai | 1874 | Hamburg | Germany |
tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876; rest of church destroyed in bombing in 1943 - only tower left standing | |
| 144.0 m (472 ft) | Strasbourg Cathedral | 1439 | Strasbourg | France |
tallest building in the world from 1647 to 1874, tallest 15th century structure in the world | |
| 141.5 m (464 ft) | Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen | 2000 | Stary Licheń |  Poland |
largest church in Poland, seventh largest in Europe and eleventh largest in the world | |
| 137.0 m (449 ft) | Stephansdom | 1433 | Vienna |  Austria |
tallest church in Austria | |
| 136.0 m (446 ft) | H | St. Peter | 1491 | Riga |  Latvia |
tower collapsed in 1666 and again in 1721; tower and roof damaged in World War II |
| 134.5 m (441 ft) | H | Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Lambert | 1433 | Liège | .svg){kind=small} Belgium |
destroyed by the Liegeois in 1793 after the French Revolution |
| 134.1 m (440 ft) | Neuer Dom | 1924 | Linz | Austria |
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| 132.8 m (436 ft) | St Petri | 1878 | Hamburg | Germany |
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| 132.5 m (435 ft) | St. Peter's Basilica | 1560-1590 | Vatican City |  Vatican City |
largest church in the world until 1989; tallest dome in the world (excluding the cross on top); tallest Renaissance structure in the world | |
| 131.9 m (433 ft) | St. Michaelis | 1786 | Hamburg | Germany |
the tallest 18th century church in the world | |
| 131.3 m (431 ft) | H | Abbey | 1180 | Malmesbury | England |
spire collapsed in the late 15th or early 16th century |
| 130.6 m (428 ft) | St Martin | 1500 | Landshut | Germany |
tallest brickwork structure in the world | |
| 130.0 m (426 ft) | H | St Elisabeth | 1535 | Wrocław | Poland |
today 83m, spire collapsed in 1529 during storm |
| 129 m (423 ft) | Saint Joseph's Oratory | 1967 | Montreal |  Canada |
tallest church in the New World (The Americas) | |
| 127.0 m (417 ft) | H | Martinikerk (tower called Martinitoren) | 1482 | Groningen |  Netherlands |
spire burned down in 1577, now 97 m in height |
| 125.0 m (410 ft) | St Jacobi | 1962 | Hamburg | Germany |
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| 125.0 m (410 ft) | Marienkirche | 1350 | Lübeck | Germany |
tallest church facade with two steeples finished in the Middle Ages and only overtaken in height by Cologne cathedral in 1880 | |
| 124.0 m (407 ft) | Catedral Basília Menor de Nossa Senhora da Glória | 1972 | Maringá |  Brazil |
tallest church in Latin America | |
| 123.7 m (406 ft) | St. Olaf | 1931 | Tallinn | Estonia |
once much taller; tallest church in the Baltic States; tallest church in the former Soviet Union | |
| 123.0 m (404 ft) | Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal | 1521 | Antwerp | Belgium |
tallest church in the Low Countries | |
| 123.0 m (404 ft) | Cathedral of Saint Mary | 1315 | Salisbury | England |
tallest church in the United Kingdom, tallest 14th century structure in the world | |
| 123.0 m (404 ft) | St. Peter | 1973 | Riga | Latvia |
once much taller; tallest church in Latvia | |
| 123.0 m (404 ft) | Peter and Paul Cathedral | 1733 | St. Petersburg |  Russia |
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| 122.3 m (400 ft) | H | Abbaye-aux-Hommes | 13th century | Caen | France |
spire replaced by a lower tower in the 17th century |
| 122.3 m (400 ft) | Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk | 1350 | Bruges | Belgium |
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| 121.0 m (397 ft) | San Gaudenzio | 1878 | Novara |  Italy |
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| 119.8 m (392 ft) | H | Cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle | 1892 | Szczecin | Poland |
the cathedral's tower collapsed during a bombardment in 1944; nowadays it measures 110.18 m |
| 119.8 m (392 ft) | Riverside Church | 1930 | New York City |  United States |
Tallest Church in the United States of America | |
| 119.2 m (390 ft) | Uppsala Domkyrka | 1435 | Uppsala |  Sweden |
largest church in Scandinavia | |
| 119.0 m (390 ft) | H | Reinoldikirche | 1520 | Dortmund | Germany |
Built in 1454 with 112m (367ft), collapsed in earthquake 1661, now 104m (340ft) |
| 118.3 m (387 ft) | Cathedral | 1468 | Metz | France |
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| 117.5 m (385 ft) | Dom | 1892 | Schwerin | Germany |
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| 117.0 m (384 ft) | St Petri | 1577 | Rostock | Germany |
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| 116.5 m (381 ft) | Münster | 1330 | Freiburg | Germany |
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| 116.5 m (381 ft) | H | Dom | 1905 | Berlin | Germany |
dome damaged in World War II |
| 115.3 m (377 ft) | St Katharinen | 1657 | Hamburg | Germany |
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| 115.3 m (377 ft) | Sagrada Familia | 2026 | Barcelona |  Spain |
intended to eventually be 172 m (564 ft) tall | |
| 115.0 m (376 ft) | St Andreas | 1389 | Hildesheim | Germany |
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| 115.0 m (376 ft) | Duomo | 1434 | Florence | Italy |
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| 115.0 m (376 ft) | Basílica del Voto Nacional | 1988 | Quito |  Ecuador |
Second tallest in Latin America | |
| 114.6 m (375 ft) | Cathedral | 1514 | Chartres | France |
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| 114.0 m (374 ft) | Saint Michael's Basilica | 1492 | Bordeaux | France |
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| 113.0 m (371 ft) | Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora del Rosario[2] | 1901 | Manizales |  Colombia |
Third tallest in Latin America | |
| 113.0 m (371 ft) | H | Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church | 1895 | Berlin | Germany |
spire damaged in World War II, current height 68 m |
| 112.7 m (370 ft) | Torrazzo | 1309 | Cremona | Italy |
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| 112.5 m (369 ft) | Domtoren | 1382 | Utrecht | Netherlands |
the cathedral's nave collapsed during a storm in 1674 | |
| 112.0 m (367 ft) | Dom | 1894 | Schleswig | Germany |
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| 112.0 m (367 ft) | Cathedral of La Plata | 1999 | La Plata |  Argentina |
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| 112.0 m (367 ft) | Notre-Dame Cathedral | 1549 | Amiens | France |
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| 111.5 m (366 ft) | St. Paul's Cathedral | 1710 | London | England |
tallest building in London until 1962 | |
| 110.4 m (361 ft) | Herz-Jesu-Kirche | 1891 | Graz | Austria |
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| 110.16 m (363 ft) | Cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle | 2008 | Szczecin | Poland |
in 1892 - 1944 it measured 119.8 m; until 2008 it was 67 m | |
| 110 m (360 ft) | H | Johanniskirche | 1384 | Lüneburg | Germany |
today 108.7 m - spire partially destroyed by lightning in 1406 |
| 109.0 m (358 ft) | Duomo | 1762 | Milan | Italy |
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| 108.8 m (357 ft) | Nieuwe Kerk | 1496 | Delft | Netherlands |
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| 108.7 m (357 ft) | Johanniskirche | 1408 | Lüneburg | Germany |
once slightly taller; spire rebuilt from 1406 to 1408 | |
| 107 m (351 ft) | Linköping Cathedral | 1886 | Linköping | Sweden |
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| 106.5 m (350 ft) | Milan Cathedral | 1886 | Milan | Italy |
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| 106 m (348 ft) | Basílica deNuestra Señora de Luján | 1935 | Luján | Argentina |
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| 106.0 m (348 ft) | Sanctuary of the Black Madonna | 1900 | Częstochowa | Poland |
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| 106.0 m (348 ft) | Saint-Joseph | 1957 | Le Havre | France |
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| 106.0 m (348 ft) | Resurrection Cathedral | 1832 | Shuya | Russia |
freestanding belltower | |
| 105.0 m (344 ft) | St. Petri Church | 1322 | Dortmund | Germany |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | St. Nicholas | 1696 | Tallinn | Estonia |
cathedral itself dates from 1275 | |
| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Cathedral | 1866 | Bayeux | France |
Estimated height; cathedral itself is mostly 12th and 13th century | |
| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Dom | 1856 | Regensburg | Germany |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Cathedral | 1899 | Zagreb |  Croatia |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Dom | 1341 | Lübeck | Germany |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Les Invalides | 1706 | Paris | France |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Sankta Klara | 1888 | Stockholm | Sweden |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | St Petri | 1310 | Malmö | Sweden |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | St. Patrick's Cathedral | 1939 | Melbourne |  Australia |
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| 105.0 m (344 ft) | Cathedral of Christ the Saviour | 2000 | Moscow | Russia |
reconstruction; original cathedral consecrated 1883 and demolished by Soviets in 1931; still the tallest Orthodox church in the world | |
| 105.0 m (344 ft) | St. Catherine Church | 1550 | Hoogstraten | Belgium |
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| 104.0 m (341 ft) | Dom | 1520 | Magdeburg | Germany |
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| 104.0 m (340 ft) | Reinoldikirche | 1954 | Dortmund | Germany |
was 119m (390ft) from 1520 until 1661 | |
| 103.3 m (339 ft) | St. Patrick's Cathedral | 1878 | New York City | United States |
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| 103.0 m (338 ft) | St. Stanislaw and St. Waclaw | 1496 | Świdnica | Poland |
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| 103.0 m (338 ft) | Katharinenkirche | 1430 | Osnabrück | Germany |
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| 103 m (338 ft) | H | Cathedral | 1549 | Lincoln | England |
today 83 m - spire collapsed in 1549; tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549. Was 103 metres from 1549 to 1807. |
| 102.6 m (337 ft) | St. Mary | 1854 | Chojna | Poland |
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| 102.3 m (336 ft) | St-Maartens Cathedral | 20th century | Ypres | Belgium |
almost exact replica of the medieval church destroyed during the First World War. This is a proto-cathedral | |
| 102.3 m (335 ft) | St. Bartholomew | 1600 | Plzeň |  Czech Republic |
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| 101.8 m (334 ft) | Saint Isaac's Cathedral | 1858 | St. Petersburg | Russia |
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| 101.5 m (331 ft) | Cathedral of St. Stanislaw | 1912 | Łódź | Poland |
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| 101.0 m (331 ft) | Anglican Cathedral | 1978 | Liverpool | England |
largest cathedral and Protestant church in Europe and possibly the largest Protestant church in the world | |
| 101.0 m (330 ft) | St. Wenceslas Cathedral | 1892 | Olomouc | Czech Republic |
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| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Gedächtniskirche | 1904 | Speyer | Germany |
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| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Münster | 1893 | Bern |  Switzerland |
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| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Catedral da Sé | 1954 | São Paulo | Brazil |
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| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception | 1959 | Washington, DC | United States |
largest Roman Catholic church in the Americas | |
| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida | 1980 | Aparecida | Brazil |
Steeple at 100.0 m; dome at 70.0 m | |
| 100.0 m (328 ft) | Basilica | 1869 | Esztergom |  Hungary |
still the tallest building in Hungary | |
| 99.5 m (326 ft) | Saint Vincent | 1883 | Eeklo | Belgium |
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| 99.5 m (326 ft) | St. Vitus Cathedral | 1929 | Prague | Czech Republic |
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| 99.5 m (326 ft) | Frauenkirche | 1525 | Munich | Germany |
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| 99.0 m (325 ft) | St. John | 1892 | Stargard Szczeciński | Poland |
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| 99.0 m (325 ft) | Votivkirche | 1879 | Vienna | Austria |
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| 98.0 m (322 ft) | Marktkirche | 1862 | Wiesbaden | Germany |
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| 98.0 m (322 ft) | St.-Petri-Dom | 1893 | Bremen | Germany |
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| 98.0 m (322 ft) | Onze-Lieve-Vrouwentoren | 15th century | Amersfoort | Netherlands |
rest of church accidentally blown up in 1797 | |
| 98.0 m (322 ft) | Grote Kerk[3] | 1547 | Breda | Netherlands |
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| 98.0 m (322 ft) | St. Martin | 1534 | Amberg | Germany |
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| 97.8 m (321 ft) | Nidaros Cathedral | 1300 | Trondheim |  Norway |
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| 97.5 m (320 ft) | Cathedral | 1568 | Seville | Spain |
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| 97.3 m (319 ft) | Sint-Romboutskathedraal | 1520 | Mechelen | Belgium |
the tower was supposed to be 167 m (+ 545 ft) tall, but the money ran out. | |
| 97.3 m (319 ft) | Marktkirche | 14th century | Hannover | Germany |
Rebuilt after World War II in 1952 | |
| 97.0 m (318 ft) | Sameba Cathedral | 2004 | Tbilisi |  Georgia |
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| 97.0 m (318 ft) | Duomo | 1885 | Pavia | Italy |
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| 97.0 m (318 ft) | Temple Saint-Étienne | 1866 | Mulhouse | France |
Tallest Protestant church in France | |
| 96.9 m (318 ft) | Martinikerk (tower called Martinitoren | 1627 | Groningen | Netherlands |
spire burned down in 1577, was 127 m tall | |
| 96.6 m (317 ft) | Agricola Church | 1935 | Helsinki |  Finland |
still the tallest building in Finland | |
| 96.2 m (315.10 ft) | Cathedral | 1884 | Clermont-Ferrand | France |
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| 96.0 m (315 ft) | Basilica of St. Anthony | 1906 | Rybnik | Poland |
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| 96.0 m (315 ft) | Cathedral | 1480 | Norwich | England |
second tallest spire in England | |
| 96.0 m (315 ft) | Domkirke | 1500 | Aarhus |  Denmark |
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| 96.0 m (315 ft) | Kreuzkirche | 1788 | Dresden | Germany |
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| 96.0 m (315 ft) | Saint Leopold Church (Donaufeld) | 1914 | Floridsdorf, Vienna | Austria |
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| 96.0 m (315 ft) | St. Stephen's Basilica | 1905 | Budapest | Hungary |
still the tallest building in Budapest | |
| 96.0 m (315 ft) | St. Paul's Cathedral | 1931 | Melbourne | Australia |
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| 95.7 m (314 ft) | Tyska Kyrkan | 1884 | Stockholm | Sweden |
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| 95.1 m (312 ft) | Frauenkirche | 1743 | Dresden | Germany |
destroyed by bombing in 1945 and rededicated in 2005 | |
| 95.1 m (312 ft) | Kaiserdom | 1877 | Frankfurt | Germany |
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| 94.1 m (309 ft) | St. Walburge | 1866 | Preston | England |
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| 94.0 m (309 ft) | Grote- of Martinikerk | 1430 | Doesburg | Netherlands |
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| 93.8 m (308 ft) | Kreuzkirche | 1800 | Dresden | Germany |
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| 93.8 m (308 ft) | St. John's Cathedral | 1861 | Limerick |  Ireland |
Tallest church spire in Ireland | |
| 93.8 m (308 ft) | Dom | 13th century | Paderborn | Germany |
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| 93.72 m (308 ft) | Peter and Paul Church | 1767 | Porechye | Russia |
Tallest rural belltower in Russia | |
| 93.5 m (307 ft) | Church of the Savior on Blood | 1907 | St. Petersburg | Russia |
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| 93.5 m (307 ft) | St. Ulrich und Afra | 1594 | Augsburg | Germany |
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| 93.4 m (306.5 ft) | Cathedral of St. Paul | 1915 | St. Paul, Minnesota | United States |
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| 92.9 m (305 ft) | Eusebiuskerk | 1965 | Arnhem | Netherlands |
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| 92.9 m (305 ft) | St. James' Cathedral | 1853 | Toronto | Canada |
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| 92.7 m (304 ft) | Nicolaikirche | 1895 | Lüneburg | Germany |
church built from 1407 to 1440, new spire built from 1831 to 1895 | |
| 92.6 m (303 ft) | Grote Kerk | 1424 | The Hague | Netherlands |
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| 92.6 m (303 ft) | Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church | 1973 (?) | Fort Lauderdale | United States |
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| 92.3 m (302 ft) | Cathedral | 1792 | Murcia | Spain |
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| 92.0 m (301 ft) | New Cathedral | 1733 | Salamanca | Spain |
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| 92.0 m (301 ft) | Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt | 1505 | Schlanders | Italy |
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| 91.7 m (300 ft) | National Cathedral | 1990 | Washington, DC | United States |
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| 91.7 m (300 ft) | St. Francis DeSales Church | 1908 | St. Louis, Missouri | United States |
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| 91.1 m (299 ft) | Grote Kerk | 1878 | The Hague | Netherlands |
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| 91.1 m (299 ft) | St. Andreas | 12th century | Braunschweig | Germany |
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| 91.0 m (300 ft) | Cathedral of Hope | 1935 | Pittsburgh | United States |
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| 91.0 m (300 ft) | St. Mary's Basilica | 1884 | Kevelaer | Germany |
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| 90.5 m (297 ft) | Långe Jan | 1300 | Middelburg | Netherlands |
the tower was rebuilt after destruction by Luftwaffe bombings in 1940 | |
| 90.5 m (297 ft) | Cathedral | 1494 | Canterbury | England |
cathedral itself dates from 1077 | |
| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Notre-Dame Cathedral | 1345 | Paris | France |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Old Cathedral | 1433 | Coventry | England |
the spire was the only part of the cathedral that survived intact when it was bombed in 1940 | |
| 90.0 m (295 ft) | St. Colman's Cathedral | 1919 | Cobh | Ireland |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Cathedral of Santa Eulalia | 15th century | Barcelona | Spain |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Cathedral | 1776 | Riga | Latvia |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Neue evangelische Garnisonkirche | 1897 | Berlin | Germany |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | St. Nikolajs | 1829 | Copenhagen | Denmark |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral | 1917 | Edinburgh |  Scotland |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | St. James' Parish Church | 1515 | Louth | England |
reputedly the tallest Anglican parish church in the UK | |
| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Garnisonkirche St. Martin | 1900 | Dresden | Germany |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Georgskirche | 1501 | Nördlingen | Germany |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | El Escorial | 1584 | San Lorenzo de El Escorial | Spain |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Cathedral | 1440 | Toledo | Spain |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Abbaye-aux-Hommes | 13th century | Caen | France |
formerly much taller | |
| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Saint-Eloi | 15th century | Dunkirk | France |
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| 90.0 m (295 ft) | Basilica of the Sacred Heart | 1971 | Brussels | Belgium |
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| 89.9 m (294 ft) | Vor Frelsers Kirke | 1696 | Copenhagen | Denmark |
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| 89.3 m (292 ft) | St. Bavo's Cathedral | 1538 | Ghent | Belgium |
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| 89.3 m (292 ft) | St. Mary Redcliffe | 1872 | Bristol | England |
second-highest parish church spire in England; the previous spire collapsed in a storm in the 1440s | |
| 88.9 m (291 ft) | Templo Votivo de Maipú | 1974 | Maipu |  Chile |
Tallest Church in Chile | |
| 88.7 m (290 ft) | Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King | 1967 | Liverpool | England |
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| 88.3 m (289 ft) | Peterskirche | 1885 | Leipzig | Germany |
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| 88.3 m (288 ft) | Washington Temple | 1974 | Kensington | United States |
tallest LDS temple | |
| 88.0 m (288 ft) | Cathedral | 1558 | Segovia | Spain |
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| 88.0 m (288 ft) | Cathedral | 1400 | Burgos | Spain |
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| 88.0 m (288 ft) | Pfarrkirche St. Stephan | 1725 | Stockerau | Austria |
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| 87.7 m (287 ft) | Dreikönigskirche | 1857 | Dresden | Germany |
completely destroyed in the 1945 bombing and now rebuilt | |
| 87.1 m (285 ft) | Cathedral | 1787 | Orléans | France |
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| 87.1 m (285 ft) | Saint-Epvre | 1872 | Nancy | France |
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| 87.0 m (285 ft) | Kostol Nanebovzatia Panny Márie | 14th century | Spišská Nová Ves |  Slovakia |
the highest church in Slovakia | |
| 87.0 m (285 ft) | Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan, Braunau | 1759 | Braunau | Austria |
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| 86.8 m (284 ft) | Westminster Cathedral | 1903 | London | England |
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| 86.5 m (283 ft) | H | Schlosskirche | 1897 | Chemnitz | Germany |
destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt considerably lower |
| 86.2 m (282 ft) | Liebfrauenkirche | 1651 | Bremen | Germany |
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| 86.2 m (282 ft) | St. Wulfram's Church | 1450 | Grantham | England |
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| 86.2 m (282 ft) | Aegidienkirche | 1840 | Lübeck | Germany |
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| 86.2 m (282 ft) | St. James's Cathedral | 1225 | Riga | Latvia |
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| 86.2 m (282 ft) | Marienkirche | 14th century | Mühlhausen | Germany |
largest parish church and second largest church in Thuringia | |
| 86.2 m (282 ft) | Jakobskirche | 16th century | Straubing | Germany |
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| 86.2 m (282 ft) | Saint-Ouen | 1851 | Rouen | France |
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| 86.0 m (282 ft) | St. Catherine Church | 1897 | Toruń | Poland |
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| 86.0 m (282 ft) | St. Georg | 1904 | Ulm | Germany |
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| 85.9 m (281 ft) | Hofkirche | 1755 | Dresden | Germany |
elevated to cathedral status in 1980; the largest church in Saxony | |
| 85.9 m (281 ft) | Cathedral of St. Joseph | 1962 | Hartford | United States |
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| 85.9 m (281 ft) | Cathedral | 1834 | Turku | Finland |
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| 85.9 m (281 ft) | St. Elphin's Church | 1860s | Warrington | England |
church itself dates from 1354 | |
| 85.6 m (280 ft) | H | Saint Denis Basilica | 1281 | Saint-Denis | France |
now considerably shorter |
| 85.6 m (280 ft) | Dom | 1993 | Berlin | Germany |
reconstructed after World War II; formerly considerably taller | |
| 85.3 m (279 ft) | Westerkerk | 1638 | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
largest Protestant church in the Netherlands | |
| 85.3 m (279 ft) | Johanneskirche | 1881 | Düsseldorf | Germany |
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| 85.3 m (279 ft) | Saint-Esprit | 1931 | Paris | France |
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| 85.0 m (278 ft) | St. Mary Abbot, Kensington | 1879 | London | England |
tallest church spire in London | |
| 85.0 m (278 ft) | Saint-Nicolas | 1850 | Nantes | France |
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| 85.0 m (278 ft) | St. Martin's Cathedral | 14th century | Bratislava | Slovakia |
the highest church in Bratislava | |
| 85.0 m (278 ft) | Église Saint-Maurice | 1893 | Strasbourg | France |
Estimated height | |
| 84.0 m (275 ft) | Cathedral | 1782 | Malaga | Spain |
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| 83.7 m (274 ft) | Orthodox Cathedral | 1946 | Timişoara |  Romania |
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| 83.5 m (274 ft) | St. Mary's Church | 1292 | Stargard Szczeciński | Poland |
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| 83 m (272 ft) | Cathedral | 1807 | Lincoln | England |
today 83 m - spire collapsed in 1549; tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549. Was 103 metres from 1549 to 1807. | |
| 82.9 m (272 ft) | St. Botolph | 1520 | Boston | England |
tallest parish church tower (as opposed to spire) in England; known as the "Boston Stump" | |
| 82.0 m (269 ft) | Cathedral | 1863 | Chichester | England |
rebuilding of an earlier, slightly lower, spire that collapsed in 1861 | |
| 82.0 m (269 ft) | St. Mary's Church | 1502 | Gdańsk | Poland |
the largest brick church in the world; the tower was never completed | |
| 82.0 m (269 ft) | St. Sava | 2004 | Belgrade |  Serbia |
the largest Orthodox church in the Balkans and the second largest in the world | |
| 80.7 m (265 ft) | Fort Street Presbyterian Church | 1855 | Detroit, Michigan | United States |
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| 80.7 m (265 ft) | St. Anthony's Church | 1894 | Toledo, Ohio | United States |
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| 80.0 m (262 ft) | St. Michael's Church | 1487 | Cluj-Napoca | Romania |
The tower was built between 1511-1543, but was destroyed by fire in 1697. A second tower was built in 1744, also destroyed in 1763. The present neo-Gothic tower was built between 1837-1860. | |
| 80.0 m (262 ft) | St. Mary's Basilica | 1406 | Kraków | Poland |
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| 79.01m (260 ft) | Basilica of Our Lady of Dolours | 1929 | Thrissur |  India |
The tallest church in Asia | |
| 79.0 m (259 ft)[4] | Cathedral of Saint Sava | 2003 | Belgrade | Serbia |
By volume the biggest Orthodox Church in the world[4] | |
| 79.0 m (259 ft) | St. Matthew Church, Anykščiai | 1908 | Anykščiai |  Lithuania |
tallest church in Lithuania | |
| 78.1 m (256 ft) | St. Anthony of Padua Church | 1912 | New Bedford, MA | United States |
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| 78 m (256 ft) | Heinz Memorial Chapel | 1938 | Pittsburgh, PA | United States |
Chapel of the University of Pittsburgh | |
| 78 m (255 ft) | Collégiale Saint-Thiébaut | 1516 | Thann | France |
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| 76 m (249 ft) | Église Saint-Paul | 1897 | Strasbourg | France |
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| 74.6 m (245 ft) | St. Mary's Cathedral | 2000 | Sydney | Australia |
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| 74.5 m (244 ft) | Hallgrímskirkja | 1986 | Reykjavík |  Iceland |
tallest church in Iceland |
[edit] See also
- List of largest church buildings in the world
- List of highest church naves
- Timeline of three tallest structures in the world
[edit] References
- ^ Emporis site about this structure
- ^ Catedral de Manizales wiki
- ^ Grote Kerk - SkyscraperPage.com
- ^ a b http://www.hramsvetogsave.com/Hram/ser/Izgradnja/Arhitektura.htm
History of St. Anthony's Parish, Toledo, Ohio, Anno Domini 1957, F.S. Legowski NRHP certification #71000424
