List of tallest churches in the world

From the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages of European history is a period of European history covering roughly a millennium in the 5th century through 16th centuries. More specific starting and ending points are sometimes adopted by scholars to suit their respective specializations or current focus...

 until the advent of the skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper...

, Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented by the revelations in the New Testament....

 churches

Christian Church

Christian Church and church Christian Church and church Christian Church and church (Greek kyriakon, "thing belonging to the Lord"; also ekklesia (Latinized as ecclesia, "assembly") are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. In the phenomenological sense there...

 have been among the world's tallest buildings. Starting in 1311, when the spire

Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from Anglo-Saxon, so it is related to "spear," rather than the Romance languages and "spirit."...

 of Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England...

 surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that survives substantially intact...

, until the Washington Monument

Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest...

 was constructed in 1884, a succession of churches held this title. If it is ever completed, Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...

's Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...

 will become the tallest church in the world, at 170 m (558 ft) tall.

This list does not include structures from other religions.

From the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages of European history is a period of European history covering roughly a millennium in the 5th century through 16th centuries. More specific starting and ending points are sometimes adopted by scholars to suit their respective specializations or current focus...

 until the advent of the skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper...

, Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented by the revelations in the New Testament....

 churches

Christian Church

Christian Church and church Christian Church and church Christian Church and church (Greek kyriakon, "thing belonging to the Lord"; also ekklesia (Latinized as ecclesia, "assembly") are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. In the phenomenological sense there...

 have been among the world's tallest buildings. Starting in 1311, when the spire

Spire

A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from Anglo-Saxon, so it is related to "spear," rather than the Romance languages and "spirit."...

 of Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England...

 surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that survives substantially intact...

, until the Washington Monument

Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest...

 was constructed in 1884, a succession of churches held this title. If it is ever completed, Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...

's Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...

 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

Minaret

Minarets are distinctive architectural features of Islamic mosques. Minarets are generally tall spires with onion-shaped or conical crowns, usually either free standing or taller than any associated support structure.-Functions of minarets:The earliest mosques were built without minarets, the adhan...

 of Casablanca

Casablanca

Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean...

's Hassan II Mosque

Hassan II Mosque

The Hassan II Mosque , located in Casablanca is the largest mosque in Morocco and the third largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina. Designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues...

 is 210 m (689 ft) tall, nor does it include church buildings that are not churches, such as the Chicago Temple Building

Chicago Temple Building

The Chicago Temple Building is a 173 meter tall skyscraper church located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the congregation of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. It was completed in 1924 and has 23 floors dedicated to religious and office use...

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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
m (530 ft)		Münster		Ulm Ulm Ulm is a city in the German Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and traditions...		768 stairs going up to a height of 143 m, intended to be shorter, but size increased in order to outdo Cologne Cathedral Cologne Cathedral Cologne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne , and is under the administration of the archdiocese of Cologne... ; largest Protestant Gothic church in Germany
m (524 ft)	H	Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England...		Lincoln Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of around 101,000 - the 2001 census gave the entire urban area of Lincoln a population of 120,779...		today 83 m - spire collapsed in 1549; tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549. Was 103 metres from 1549 to 1807.
m (520 ft)	H	St. Olaf		Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of in which 405,867 inhabitants live. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki.-Historical names:...		today 123m - spire destroyed by lightning in 1625; tallest building in the world from 1549 to 1625
m (518 ft)		Our Lady of Peace Basilica Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire . The basilica was constructed between 1985 and 1989 at a cost of $300 million...		Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro The District of Yamoussoukro is the official capital city of Côte d'Ivoire. A city of 200,659 inhabitants as of 2005, and located north of Abidjan on rolling hills and plains, the municipality covers 3,500 km² and is coterminous with the department of the same name...		possible 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 Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...
m (516 ft)		Dom Cologne Cathedral Cologne Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne , and is under the administration of the archdiocese of Cologne...		Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants...		tallest building in the world from 1880 to 1884; largest Gothic church in Germany; tallest Roman Catholic cathedral in the world
m (502 ft)	H	Saint-Pierre Cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais ||-||}Beauvais Cathedral is an incomplete cathedral located in Beauvais, in northern France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis...		Beauvais Beauvais Beauvais is a town and commune and capital of the Oise department in northern France. Population : city: 57,355; city and suburbs: 59,003; metropolitan area: 100,733. It lies about north of Paris.-History:...		tower collapsed in 1573
m (495 ft)	H	St. Mary's church St. Mary's church, Stralsund Marienkirche is located in Stralsund, northern Germany.Built some time before 1298, it is architecturally Gothic, and was loosely modelled on St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. Between 1625 and 1647, it was the world's tallest building at tall.The bell tower collapsed in 1382, and was rebuilt by 1478...		Stralsund Stralsund Stralsund is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, situated at the southern coast of the Strelasund ....		today 104m - spire destroyed by lightning in 1647; tallest building in the world from 1625 to 1647
m (495 ft)		Notre-Dame Cathedral		Rouen Rouen Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie region. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...		tallest building in the world from 1876 to 1880; tallest church in France
m (493 ft)	H	Old St. Paul's Cathedral		London London []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...		spire destroyed by lightning in 1561; whole cathedral destroyed in Great Fire of London Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall...  in 1666
m (483 ft)		St Nikolai St. Nikolai, Hamburg The Gothic Revival St. Nikolai's Church was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen in the city of Hamburg. It is now in ruins, serving as a memorial and an important architectural landmark. When Hamburgers mention the "Nikolaikirche", it is generally to this church that is referred, and...		Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...		tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876; rest of church destroyed in bombing in 1943 - only tower left standing
m (472 ft)		Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, France. Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high, or late, Gothic architecture...		Strasbourg Strasbourg Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the ninth largest in France...		| tallest building in the world from 1647 to 1874, tallest 15th century structure in the world
m (464 ft)		Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń is a Roman Catholic church located in the village of Licheń Stary near Konin in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland. It was designed by Barbara Bielecka and built between 1994 and 2004. The construction was founded entirely by pilgrims' donations...		Stary Licheń		largest church in Poland, seventh largest in Europe and eleventh largest in the world
138 m (435 ft)		St. Peter's Basilica St. Peter's Basilica The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as the ' and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City. St. Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world, holding 60,000 people. It is the symbolic "Mother church" of...		Vatican City Vatican City Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the capital city of Italy...		possible largest church in the world (disputed with Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire . The basilica was constructed between 1985 and 1989 at a cost of $300 million... ); tallest dome in the world (excluding the cross on top); tallest Renaissance structure in the world
m (449 ft)		Stephansdom Stephansdom St. Stephen's Cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP...		Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by...		tallest church in Austria
m (446 ft)	H	St. Peter St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church is a tall church in Riga, Latvia, named after Saint Peter.It was first built in 1209 as a church for the people. It was enlarged at the beginning of 15th century, beginning in 1409, by the mason Johann Rumeschottel of Rostock, whose first known work was the Marienkirche in...		Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava...		tower collapsed in 1666 and again in 1721; tower and roof damaged in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
m (441 ft)	H	Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Lambert		Liège Liège (city) Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the administrative capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium.The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse River, near Belgium's eastern borders...		destroyed by the Liegeois in 1793 after the French Revolution French Revolution The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based...
m (440 ft)		Neuer Dom		Linz Linz Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately 30 km south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube...
m (436 ft)		St Petri St. Petri, Hamburg St. Peter's Church is the oldest parish church in Hamburg, Germany. It is named after the Christian Apostle Peter, whom the Catholic Church believes to be the first Pope. The church is located on Mönckebergstrasse and marks the highest point in Hamburg's Old Town...		Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
m (433 ft)		St. Michaelis		Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...		the tallest 18th century church in the world
m (431 ft)	H	Abbey Malmesbury Abbey Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex.-History:...		Malmesbury Malmesbury, Wiltshire Malmesbury is a south Cotswold town and civil parish in south west England in the county of Wiltshire. The town is close to Cirencester, Chippenham and Swindon and surrounded by rivers on three sides.- Geography and administration :...		spire collapsed in the late 15th or early 16th century
m (428 ft)		St Martin		Landshut Landshut Landshut is a city in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany, belonging to both Eastern and Southern Bavaria. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut acts is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also the seat of the...		tallest brickwork Brickwork Brickwork masonry is produced when a bricklayer uses bricks and mortar to build up structures such as walls, bridges and chimneys. Brickwork is also used to finish openings such as doors or windows in buildings made of other materials...  structure in the world
m (426 ft)	H	St Elisabeth		Wrocław		today 83m, spire collapsed in 1529 during storm
129 m (423 ft)		Saint Joseph's Oratory Saint Joseph's Oratory Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, , is a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.In 1904, Blessed André Bessette, CSC, began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain near Notre Dame College. Soon the growing number of...		Montreal Montreal Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...		tallest church in the New World (The Americas)
m (417 ft)	H	Martinikerk Martinikerk Martinikerk is the oldest church in Groningen, The Netherlands. The church and its associated tower are named after Saint Martin of Tours , the patron saint of the Archbishopric of Utrecht to which Groningen belongs.The chruch has been a Cathedral for a short period during the first bishopric of... (tower called Martinitoren Martinitoren The Martinitoren is the highest church tower in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands. The tower is located at the north-western corner of the Grote Markt , is part of the Martinikerk . The citizens of Groningen call their tower d'Olle Grieze, meaning the old grey one in the local dialect... )		Groningen Groningen (city) ||-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. With a population of 185,000, it is by far the largest city in the north of the Netherlands....		spire burned down in 1577, now 97 m in height
m (410 ft)		St Jacobi St. Jacobi, Hamburg The St. Jacobi church is one of the five principal Lutheran churches of Hamburg, Germany. The church is located directly in the city center, has a 125 m tall tower and features a famous organ by Arp Schnitger from 1693. It is dedicated to St James the Greater and often incorrectly known in English...		Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
m (410 ft)		Marienkirche		Lübeck Lübeck The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage is on UNESCO's list of World...		tallest church facade with two steeples finished in the Middle Ages and only overtaken in height by Cologne cathedral in 1880
m (407 ft)		Catedral Basília Menor de Nossa Senhora da Glória Catedral de Maringá Catedral Basílica Menor Nossa Senhora da Glória is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in downtown Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, measuring 124 m high...		Maringá Maringá Maringá is a city in southern Brazil that was founded on May 10, 1947. Maringá is the third largest city in the state of Paraná. The city has a population of 329,800 , 570,094...		tallest church in Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
m (406 ft)		St. Olaf		Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of in which 405,867 inhabitants live. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki.-Historical names:...		once much taller; tallest church in the Baltic States; tallest church in the former Soviet Union Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
m (404 ft)		Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic parish church in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp was started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans...		Antwerp Antwerp ||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions. Antwerp's total population is 472,071 and its total area is , giving a population density of 2,308 inhabitants per km²...		tallest church in the Low Countries Low Countries The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the countries on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers...
m (404 ft)		Cathedral of Saint Mary Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.The main body was completed in only 38 years....		Salisbury		tallest church in the United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands... , tallest 14th century structure in the world
m (404 ft)		St. Peter St. Peter's Church, Riga St. Peter's Church is a tall church in Riga, Latvia, named after Saint Peter.It was first built in 1209 as a church for the people. It was enlarged at the beginning of 15th century, beginning in 1409, by the mason Johann Rumeschottel of Rostock, whose first known work was the Marienkirche in...		Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava...		once much taller; tallest church in Latvia
m (404 ft)		Peter and Paul Cathedral Peter and Paul Cathedral The Peter and Paul Cathedral is located inside the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia. The fortress, originally built under Peter the Great and designed by Domenico Trezzini, is the first and oldest landmark in St. Petersburg, built between 1712 and 1733 on Zayachy Island along the...		St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
m (400 ft)	H	Abbaye-aux-Hommes Abbaye-aux-Hommes The Abbaye aux Hommes is a former abbey church in the French city of Caen, Normandy. Dedicated to Saint Stephen , it is considered, along with the neighbouring Abbaye aux Dames, to be one of the most notable Romanesque buildings in Normandy. Like all the major abbeys in Normandy, it was Benedictine...		Caen Caen Caen is a commune in north-western France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region...		spire replaced by a lower tower in the 17th century
m (400 ft)		Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk Church of Our Lady, Bruges The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium, dates mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.Its tower, at 122,3 meters in height, remains the tallest structure in the city and the second tallest brickwork tower in the world The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium, dates mainly from the...		Bruges Bruges Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
m (397 ft)		San Gaudenzio		Novara Novara Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 103.602 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin and it is the second urban area of the Region Piedmont with 190,000 inhabitants...
m (392 ft)	H	Cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin The Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin - was built by the citizens of the city after the model of the St. Mary in Lübeck. It is the biggest church in Pomerania. Since the reformation it was a church of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church...		Szczecin Szczecin Szczecin - is the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of the 2005 census the city had a total population of 420,638. In 2007 its population was 407,811.Szczecin is located on the...		the cathedral's tower collapsed during a bombardment in 1944; nowadays it measures 110.18 m
m (392 ft)		Riverside Church Riverside Church The Riverside Church in the City of New York is an interdenominational church in New York City, famous not only for its elaborate Gothic architecture—which includes the world's largest carillon—but also as a center for the promotion of progressive causes...		New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...		Tallest Church in the United States of America
m (390 ft)		Uppsala Domkyrka Uppsala Cathedral The Cathedral of Uppsala , located centrally in the city of Uppsala, Sweden, dates back to the late 13th century and at a height of 118.7 m is the largest church building in Scandinavia. Originally built under Roman Catholicism and used for coronations of the Swedish monarch, since the Protestant...		Uppsala Uppsala Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden with 144,839 inhabitants....		largest church in Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a geographical region in northern Europe that includes, and is named after, the Scanian Province. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark...
m (390 ft)	H	Reinoldikirche Reinoldikirche The Protestant Reinoldikirche is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund and is dedicated to Saint Reinoldus, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatinate church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with a late gothic...		Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the 7th-largest city in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....		Built in 1454 with 112m (367ft), collapsed in earthquake 1661, now 104m (340ft)
m (387 ft)		Cathedral Metz Cathedral Metz Cathedral or St. Stephen's Cathedral in Metz , in the département of Moselle, France, is the seat of the Bishop of Metz. It was formed in the 14th century by joining together two churches: the nave of Saint-Etienne, built in the 13th century, was attached to the north side of an older...		Metz Metz Metz is a city in the northeast of France, capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. It is located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers....
m (385 ft)		Dom Schwerin Cathedral Schwerin Cathedral , dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint John, was built following the move of the seat of the Bishopric of the Abodrites, established by Henry the Lion, to Schwerin from Mecklenburg in the late 12th century. At first a timber construction served the city as a place of worship...		Schwerin Schwerin Schwerin is a city in northern Germany and the capital of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The population, as of end of 2007, was 95,855.-History:...
m (384 ft)		St Petri St. Petrikirche, Rostock St. Peter's Church, in German Petrikirche, is the oldest of three town churches found in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, in northern Germany. The other two are St. Mary`s Church and St. Nicholas . A fourth, St. Jakobi, was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently...		Rostock Rostock Rostock is the largest city in the north German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock is located on the Warnow river; the quarter of Warnemünde 12 km north of the city centre lies directly on the coast of the Baltic Sea.-Geography:Rostock is located nearly centrally on...
m (381 ft)		Münster Freiburg Münster Freiburg Minster is the cathedral of Freiburg, southwest Germany. It was built in three stages, the first beginning in the year 1120 under the dukes of Zähringen, the second beginning in 1210, and the third in 1230. Of the original building, only the foundations still exist...		Freiburg Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Located in the extreme south-west of the country, Freiburg straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the...
m (381 ft)	H	Dom Berliner Dom Berlin Cathedral is the colloquial name for the Evangelical Oberpfarr- und Domkirche in Berlin, Germany...		Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...		dome damaged in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
m (377 ft)		Sagrada Familia Sagrada Familia The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...		Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...		intended to eventually be 172 m (564 ft) tall
m (377 ft)		St Katharinen		Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
m (376 ft)		St Andreas St. Andreaskirche, Hildesheim The St Andreas Church is the principal Lutheran church of Hildesheim, Germany, not to be confounded with the Catholic Hildesheim Cathedral. Its tower is 114.5 m tall, making it the tallest church tower in Lower Saxony; it is accessible and offers a panoramic view of both the city and surrounding...		Hildesheim Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hannover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...
m (376 ft)		Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi...		Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence...
m (376 ft)		Basílica del Voto Nacional Basílica del Voto Nacional The Basilica of the National Vow is a Roman Catholic church located in Quito, Ecuador.Consecrated in 1988, it remains technically "unfinished." Local legend says that when the Basílica is completed, the end of the world will come...		Quito Quito San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...		Second tallest in Latin America
m (376 ft)		Collegiate church of St. Mary Magdalene http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolegiata_%25C5%259Bw._Marii_Magdaleny_w_Poznaniu&ei=6guLSo3EOJOKnQOJ-biaBA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKolegiata%2B%25C5%259Bw.%2BMarii%2BMagdaleny%2Bw%2BPoznaniu%2B-%2Bwikipedia%2Bwolna%2Bencyklopedia%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:pl:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ASUS_pl___PL331		Poznan Poznan Poznań is a city in west-central Poland with over 557,264 inhabitants . Located on the Warta River, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education. Poznań is Poland's fifth largest city and fourth biggest...		Third tallest building in Europe in 1262, destroyed in a fire in 1777, finally demolished in 1802
m (375 ft)		Cathedral Cathedral of Chartres The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, , a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Chartres, about southwest of Paris, is considered one of the finest examples in all France of the Gothic style of architecture....		Chartres Chartres Chartres is a town and commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France It is located southwest of Paris in central France.-Geography:...
m (374 ft)		Saint Michael's Basilica Saint Michael's Basilica, Bordeaux The Basilica of St. Michael, Bordeaux, is a Flamboyant Gothic church in Bordeaux, France, built between the end of 14th century and the 15th century....		Bordeaux Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area at a 2008 estimate. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department...
m (371 ft)		Catedral Basílica Nuestra Señora del Rosario		Manizales Manizales Manizales is a city and municipality in central Colombia, capital of Department of Caldas and part of the region of Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis, near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano....		Third tallest in Latin America
m (371 ft)	H	Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church The Protestant Kaiser William Memorial Church is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz. The original church on the site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943...		Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...		spire damaged in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... , current height 68 m
m (370 ft)		Torrazzo		Cremona Cremona Cremona is a city in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana...
m (369 ft)		Domtoren Dom Tower of Utrecht The Dom Tower of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, at 112.5 metres in height, and the Gothic-style tower is the symbol of the city. The tower was part of the Cathedral of Saint Martin, Utrecht, also known as Dom Church, and was built between 1321 and 1382, to a design by...		Utrecht Utrecht (city) Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern end of the Randstad, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands, with a population of 300,030 in 2007...		the cathedral's nave collapsed during a storm in 1674
m (367 ft)		Dom Schleswig Cathedral Schleswig Cathedral , officially the Cathedral of St. Peter at Schleswig , is the main church of Schleswig and was the cathedral of the Bishop of Schleswig until the diocese was dissolved in 1624...		Schleswig Schleswig Schleswig or South Jutland is a region covering the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark...
m (367 ft)		Cathedral of La Plata Cathedral of La Plata The Cathedral of La Plata, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the largest Roman Catholic sanctuary in the city of La Plata in Argentina, and one of the largest in Latin America...		La Plata La Plata La Plata is the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as of the department of La Plata. The city was planned to serve as the capital of the province after the city of Buenos Aires was declared as the federal district in 1880...
m (367 ft)		Notre-Dame Cathedral Amiens Cathedral The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens , or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral and seat of the Bishop of Amiens, Jean-Luc Marie Maurice Louis Bouilleret. The cathedral is the tallest complete cathedral in France, with the greatest interior volume...		Amiens Amiens Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardie.-History:The Paleolithic culture named Acheulean was named for its first identified site, in Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens...
m (366 ft)		St. Paul's Cathedral		London London []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...		tallest building in London until 1962
m (361 ft)		Herz-Jesu-Kirche		Graz Graz Graz , with a population of 291,574 as of 2009 , is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria....
m (363 ft)		Cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin The Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin - was built by the citizens of the city after the model of the St. Mary in Lübeck. It is the biggest church in Pomerania. Since the reformation it was a church of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church...		Szczecin Szczecin Szczecin - is the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of the 2005 census the city had a total population of 420,638. In 2007 its population was 407,811.Szczecin is located on the...		in 1892 - 1944 it measured 119.8 m; until 2008 it was 67 m
110 m (360 ft)	H	Johanniskirche		Lüneburg Lüneburg Lüneburg, also known as Lueneburg and Lunenburg in English, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 45 km — a thirty-minute train ride — southeast of fellow Hanseatic city Hamburg. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and one of Hamburg's inner...		today 108.7 m - spire partially destroyed by lightning in 1406
m (358 ft)		Duomo Duomo di Milano Milan Cathedral is the cathedral church of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy...		Milan Milan Milan in Italy, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while the urban area is the fifth largest in the E.U. with an estimated population of 4.3 million...
m (357 ft)		Nieuwe Kerk		Delft Delft See also: Delft, Cape Town, Delft IslandDelft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands...
m (357 ft)		Johanniskirche		Lüneburg Lüneburg Lüneburg, also known as Lueneburg and Lunenburg in English, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 45 km — a thirty-minute train ride — southeast of fellow Hanseatic city Hamburg. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and one of Hamburg's inner...		once slightly taller; spire rebuilt from 1406 to 1408
107 m (351 ft)		Linköping Cathedral		Linköping Linköping Linköping [ˈlɪnɕøːpɪŋ] is a city in southern Sweden, with 97,428 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 140,367 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...
m (350 ft)		Milan Cathedral Cathedral A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...		Milan Milan Milan in Italy, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while the urban area is the fifth largest in the E.U. with an estimated population of 4.3 million...
106 m (348 ft)		Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Luján		Luján Luján -Places:*Luján, Buenos Aires, a city in Argentina*Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina*Luján Partido-People:*Andrés Iniesta Luján, a footballer for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national football team*Ben Ray Luján, Democratic Congressman from New Mexico...
m (348 ft)		Sanctuary of the Black Madonna		Częstochowa Czestochowa Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 248,894 inhabitants . It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship...
m (348 ft)		Saint-Joseph Saint-Joseph, Le Havre St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre, is a Roman Catholic church in Le Havre, France, built between 1951 and 1957/58 as part of the reconstruction of the town of Le Havre, which was almost entirely destroyed during World War II...		Le Havre Le Havre Le Havre is a city in north-western France situated on the right bank of the mouth of the Seine River as it flows into the Bay of the Seine in the English Channel. It is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region. The inhabitants of the city are called Havrais or...
m (348 ft)		Resurrection Cathedral		Shuya Shuya Shuya is the third largest town in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia; it is situated on the Teza River, 150 miles east of Moscow. Population: 62,449 .-History:...		freestanding belltower
m (344 ft)		St. Petri Church		Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the 7th-largest city in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....
m (344 ft)		St. Nicholas St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn St. Nicholas' Church is a medieval church in Tallinn, Estonia. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the fishermen and sailors. Originally built in the 13th century, it was partially destroyed in Soviet Bombing of Tallinn in World War II. After restoration it is in use as an art museum...		Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies a surface of in which 405,867 inhabitants live. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki.-Historical names:...		cathedral itself dates from 1275
m (344 ft)		Cathedral		Bayeux Bayeux Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in north-western France.Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the oldest surviving complete tapestries in the world.-Administration:Bayeux is a sub-prefecture of Calvados...		Estimated height; cathedral itself is mostly 12th and 13th century
m (344 ft)		Dom Regensburg Cathedral The Regensburg Cathedral , dedicated to St Peter, is the most important church and landmark of the city Regensburg, and cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Regensburg...		Regensburg Regensburg Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
m (344 ft)		Cathedral Zagreb cathedral Zagreb Cathedral on Kaptol is probably the most famous building in Zagreb, as its spires can be seen from many locations in the city. It is tallest building in Zagreb and the tallest in Croatia. The building of the cathedral started in the 11th century , although the building was razed to the...		Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the cultural, scientific, economic and governmental center of Croatia, and a global city. According to the city government, the population of Zagreb in 2008 was 804,200...
m (344 ft)		Dom Lübeck Cathedral The Lübeck Cathedral is a large brick Lutheran cathedral in Lübeck, Germany and part of Lübeck's world heritage. It was started in 1173 by Henry the Lion as a cathedral for the Bishop of Lübeck. It was partly destroyed in a bombing raid in World War II , and later reconstructed. The organ by Arp...		Lübeck Lübeck The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage is on UNESCO's list of World...
m (344 ft)		Les Invalides Les Invalides Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose...		Paris Paris Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
m (344 ft)		Sankta Klara		Stockholm Stockholm ' is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag , and the official residence of the Swedish Monarch as well as the prime minister. The Monarch resides at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm since 1980 and uses the Royal Palace of...
m (344 ft)		St Petri St Petri, Malmö The Church of Saint Peter is a large church in Malmö that began being built in 1319. It is built in the Gothic style and has a 105 metre tall tower.-External links:**...		Malmö Malmö Malmö is the third most populous city in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County. The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which has 290 007 inhabitants in eight different...
m (344 ft)		St. Patrick's Cathedral St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne St Patrick's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, and seat of its archbishop, currently Denis J. Hart...		Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
m (344 ft)		Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow) The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour or Khram Khrista Spasitelya is a Church in Moscow, Russia, on the bank of the Moskva River, a few blocks west of the Kremlin...		Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...		reconstruction; original cathedral consecrated 1883 and demolished by Soviets in 1931; still the tallest Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to in English speaking countries as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the world's second largest Christian communion, estimated to number 225 million members...  church in the world
m (344 ft)		St. Catherine Church		Hoogstraten Hoogstraten Hoogstraten , home to some 18,900 individuals in this third millennium, lies in Flanders at the northern border of Belgium within an enclave surrounded on three sides by the Netherlands...
m (342 ft)		Archcathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaw		Łódź
m (341 ft)		Dom Cathedral of Magdeburg The Protestant Cathedral of Magdeburg , officially called the Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice , is one of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in Germany. It is the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg...		Magdeburg Magdeburg Magdeburg , the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is situated at the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe. Emperor Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor, lived during most of his reign in the town and was buried in the cathedral after his death...
m (340 ft)		Reinoldikirche Reinoldikirche The Protestant Reinoldikirche is, according to its foundation date, the oldest extant church in Dortmund and is dedicated to Saint Reinoldus, the patron of the city. The church was built as a palatinate church in the Ottonian era. The present building is a late Romanesque church with a late gothic...		Dortmund Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the 7th-largest city in Germany, and 34th-largest in the European Union....		was 119m (390ft) from 1520 until 1661
m (339 ft)		St. Patrick's Cathedral St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York Saint Patrick's Cathedral is adecorated Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral church in the United States. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on the east side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in midtown Manhattan,...		New York City New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
m (338 ft)		St. Stanislaw and St. Waclaw		Świdnica Swidnica Świdnica is a town in south-western Poland. It has a population of 60,317 according to 2006 figures. It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, being the seventh largest town in that voivodeship. From 1975–98 it was in the former Wałbrzych Voivodeship...
m (338 ft)		Katharinenkirche		Osnabrück Osnabrück Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80 km NNE of Dortmund, 45 km NE of Münster, and some 100 km due west of Hannover. It lies in a valley penned between the Wiehengebirge and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest...
103 m (338 ft)	H	Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln Cathedral is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln in England and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England...		Lincoln Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of around 101,000 - the 2001 census gave the entire urban area of Lincoln a population of 120,779...		today 83 m - spire collapsed in 1549; tallest building in the world from 1311 to 1549. Was 103 metres from 1549 to 1807.
m (337 ft)		St. Mary		Chojna Chojna Chojna is a small town in western Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies approximately 60 km south of Szczecin and participates in the Douzelage....
m (336 ft)		St-Maartens Cathedral		Ypres Ypres Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote...		almost exact replica of the medieval church destroyed during the First World War World War I World War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance... . This is a proto-cathedral Cathedral A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...
m (335 ft)		St. Bartholomew Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (Plzen) The Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew dominates the city center of Pilsen in the Czech Republic.The construction of the Gothic style building, located on the main square, started in 1295 and was finished by the beginning of 16th century.The building is 58m long, 30m wide and the spires are 25m high...		Plzeň
m (334 ft)		Saint Isaac's Cathedral Saint Isaac's Cathedral Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor in Saint Petersburg, Russia is the largest cathedral in the city and was the largest church in Russia when it was built...		St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
m (331 ft)		Anglican Cathedral Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Liverpool, England, built on St James' Mount near the centre of the city: it is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool but it is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin...		Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...		largest cathedral and Protestant church in Europe and possibly the largest Protestant church in the world
m (330 ft)		St. Wenceslas Cathedral		Olomouc Olomouc Olomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic...
m (328 ft)		Gedächtniskirche		Speyer Speyer Speyer is a city in Germany with approx. 50,000 inhabitants, located beside the river Rhine. It lies 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Its oldest known name was Civitas Nemetum, named by a Teutonic tribe, the Nemeter, settling in this area...
m (328 ft)		Münster		Bern
m (328 ft)		Catedral da Sé Catedral da Sé The São Paulo See Metropolitan Cathedral --"See" and "cathedra" mean "seat" and therefore the eclesiastical authority of a bishop or archbishop is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Its construction, in Neo-Gothic style, began in 1913 and ended four...		São Paulo
m (328 ft)		Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a prominent Roman Catholic basilica located in Washington, D.C., honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the Patroness of the United States...		Washington, DC		largest Roman Catholic church in the Americas
m (328 ft)		Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida The town of Aparecida, Brazil, houses two Basilicas dedicated to the National Patron Saint, the "Appeared --from the Apparition of the-- Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary", better known as Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida, or Our Lady of Aparecida: the "Old Basilica", built...		Aparecida Aparecida Aparecida is a Brazilian city and municipality in the state of São Paulo. It is located in the fertile valley of the River Paraíba do Sul on the southern bank. The population in 2004 was 35,754 and the area of the municipality is 121.232 km²...		Steeple at 100.0 m; dome at 70.0 m
m (328 ft)		Basilica Esztergom Basilica The Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed Into Heaven and St Adalbert is an ecclesiastic basilica in Esztergom, Hungary, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, and the seat of the Catholic Church in Hungary...		Esztergom Esztergom Esztergom , also known by alternative names, is a city in northern Hungary, about 50 km north-west of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there....		still the tallest building in Hungary
m (326 ft)		Saint Vincent		Eeklo Eeklo Eeklo is a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality only comprises the city of Eeklo proper. The name Eeklo comes from the contraction of “eke” and “lo”, two Old German words meaning “oak” and “sparse woods”....
m (326 ft)		St. Vitus Cathedral St. Vitus Cathedral Saint Vitus's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. The full name of the cathedral is St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert Cathedral...		Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Nicknames for Prague have included "the mother of cities" , "city of a hundred spires", or Stověžatá Praha in Czech and "the golden city" or Zlaté město in Czech.Situated on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, Prague has been the...
m (326 ft)		Frauenkirche		Munich Munich Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg...
m (325 ft)		St. John		Stargard Szczeciński Stargard Szczecinski Stargard Szczeciński is a city in northwestern Poland, with 71,017 inhabitants . Situated on the Ina River, it is the capital of Stargard County in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship ; previously it was in the Szczecin Voivodeship...
m (325 ft)		Votivkirche		Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by...
m (322 ft)		Marktkirche		Wiesbaden Wiesbaden Wiesbaden is a city in southwestern Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...
m (322 ft)		St.-Petri-Dom		Bremen
m (322 ft)		Onze-Lieve-Vrouwentoren		Amersfoort Amersfoort Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly and has a well-preserved medieval core. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the Netherlands' main...		rest of church accidentally blown up in 1797
m (322 ft)		Grote Kerk		Breda
m (322 ft)		St. Martin		Amberg Amberg Amberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Upper Palatinate , roughly halfway between Regensburg and Bayreuth. Population: 44,756 .- History :...
m (321 ft)		Nidaros Cathedral Nidaros Cathedral Nidaros Cathedral is a church in located in Trondheim, Norway. It was the cathedral of the Norwegian archdiocese, from its establishment in 1152 until its abolition in 1537. Since the Reformation, it has been the cathedral of the Lutheran bishops of Trondheim or Nidaros in the Diocese of Nidaros....		Trondheim Trondheim is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...
m (320 ft)		Cathedral Seville Cathedral The Cathedral of Seville, also known as Catedral de Santa María de la Sede is the cathedral of the city of Seville in Andalucia. It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world....		Seville Seville Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level. The inhabitants of the city are known as Sevillanos or...
m (319 ft)		Sint-Romboutskathedraal St. Rumbolds Cathedral St. Rumbold's Cathedral is the archiepiscopal cathedral of Mechelen in Belgium.-St. Rumbold's Tower:The flat-topped silhouette of the cathedral's tower is easily recognizable and dominates the surroundings. The original design called for a 77-meter spire, but only 7 meters of it were ever actually...		Mechelen Mechelen Mechelen is a Dutch-speaking city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium...		the tower was supposed to be 167 m (+ 545 ft) tall, but the money ran out.
m (319 ft)		Marktkirche Marktkirche The Marktkirche St. Georg and St. Jakobus is the main Lutheran church in Hanover. It was built in the 14th century and, together with the nearby Old Town Hall, is considered the southernmost exemplar of the "North German brick gothic" architectural style...		Hannover		Rebuilt after World War II in 1952
m (318 ft)		Sameba Cathedral Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral The Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral commonly known as Sameba is the main Georgian Orthodox Christian cathedral, located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia...		Tbilisi Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
m (318 ft)		Duomo		Pavia Pavia Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 71,000...
m (318 ft)		Temple Saint-Étienne Temple Saint-Étienne The Protestant St. Stephen's Church is the main Reformed church of the city of Mulhouse in Alsace, France. Because of its central location on the main square of Mulhouse, the Place de la Réunion, and its 97 meter high bell tower , it is sometimes referred to as the "Cathedral of Mulhouse"...		Mulhouse Mulhouse Mulhouse is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With 271,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2007 it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin department, and the second largest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg...		Tallest Protestant church in France
m (318 ft)		Martinikerk Martinikerk Martinikerk is the oldest church in Groningen, The Netherlands. The church and its associated tower are named after Saint Martin of Tours , the patron saint of the Archbishopric of Utrecht to which Groningen belongs.The chruch has been a Cathedral for a short period during the first bishopric of...   (tower called Martinitoren Martinitoren The Martinitoren is the highest church tower in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands. The tower is located at the north-western corner of the Grote Markt , is part of the Martinikerk . The citizens of Groningen call their tower d'Olle Grieze, meaning the old grey one in the local dialect...		Groningen Groningen (city) ||-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. With a population of 185,000, it is by far the largest city in the north of the Netherlands....		spire burned down in 1577, was 127 m tall
m (317 ft)		Agricola Church		Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin...		tallest church in Finland
m (315.10 ft)		Cathedral		Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
m (315 ft)		Basilica of St. Anthony		Rybnik Rybnik Rybnik is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship. Rybnik is located close to the border with the Czech Republic and just outside the southern border of the largest urban area in Poland, the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union...
m (315 ft)		Cathedral Norwich Cathedral Norwich Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Norwich in Norfolk, England dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity.-Construction:...		Norwich Norwich Norwich is a city in Norfolk, East Anglia which is in Eastern England. It is the regional administrative centre and county city of Norfolk...		second tallest spire in England
m (315 ft)		Domkirke Århus Domkirke Aarhus Cathedral is the main religious edifice of Aarhus, Denmark, in the Jutland peninsula in the western part of the country. The cathedral is dedicated to the patron saint of sailors, St. Clemens, and located at the address Domkirkepladsen 2, 8000 Århus C, Denmark, on the port-side of the...		Aarhus Aarhus Aarhus, or Århus , is the second largest city and the principal port of Denmark, situated on the peninsula of Jutland. Aarhus is the seat of the council of Aarhus municipality with 303,318 inhabitants and claims the unofficial title "Capital of Jutland"...
m (315 ft)		Kreuzkirche		Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
m (315 ft)		Saint Leopold Church (Donaufeld) Saint Leopold Church (Donaufeld) Saint Leopold's Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Donaufeld in Floridsdorf, the 21st district of Vienna, Austria.Located at Kinzerplatz, it stands at a height of 96m , which makes it the third tallest church in Vienna. Construction was completed in 1914...		Floridsdorf Floridsdorf Floridsdorf is the 21st district of Vienna, Austria .Floridsdorf is located in the northern part of Vienna.The District Office and the centre of Floridsdorf are located round Am Spitz, at the junction of Prager Straße and Brünner Straße .Since 2004, Floridsdorf has had its own tower: the... , Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by...
m (315 ft)		St. Stephen's Basilica		Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. In 2009, Budapest had 1,712,210 inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s...		still the tallest building in Budapest
m (315 ft)		St. Paul's Cathedral		Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
m (314 ft)		Tyska Kyrkan		Stockholm Stockholm ' is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag , and the official residence of the Swedish Monarch as well as the prime minister. The Monarch resides at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm since 1980 and uses the Royal Palace of...
m (312 ft)		Frauenkirche Dresden Frauenkirche The Dresdner Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany.The Dresden Frauenkirche survived the firebombing of Dresden during World War II...		Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....		destroyed by bombing in 1945 and rededicated in 2005
m (312 ft)		Kaiserdom Frankfurt Cathedral ||-||-||}Saint Bartholomeus's Cathedral is a Gothic building located in Frankfurt, Germany.Frankfurt Cathedral is the main church of Frankfurt and was constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries on the foundation of an earlier church from the Merovingian time...		Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.26 million in 2001...
m (309 ft)		St. Walburge St Walburge's Church St Walburge's Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Preston, Lancashire, England, northwest of the city centre on Weston Street. The church was built in the mid 19th century by the Gothic revival architect Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab, and is famous as having the tallest spire...		Preston Preston Preston is a city and non-metropolitan district of Lancashire, in North West England. It is located on the north bank of the River Ribble, and was granted city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign...
m (309 ft)		Grote- of Martinikerk		Doesburg Doesburg Doesburg Doesburg Doesburg (Dutch is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Gelderland. Doesburg received city rights in 1237 and currently has 11,602 inhabitants (1 January 2007, source: CBS). The city is situated on the right bank of river IJssel, at the...
m (308 ft)		Kreuzkirche		Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
m (308 ft)		St. John's Cathedral St. John's Cathedral, Limerick St. John's Cathedral is one of two cathedrals in Limerick, Ireland. Built in 1861 and designed by the architect Philip Charles Hardwick, it has been in continuous use since....		Limerick Limerick Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland,Information based on Central Statistics Office figures from 2006, which is the most recent census information available. and the principal city in County Limerick...		Tallest church spire in Ireland
m (308 ft)		Dom Paderborn Cathedral The Paderborn Cathedral St. Liborius is the Cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn. It is located in the city centre of Paderborn.-Patron Saint:...		Paderborn Paderborn Paderborn is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader, which originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral, where St. Liborius is buried.-History:...
m (308 ft)		Peter and Paul Church		Porechye		Tallest rural belltower in Russia
m (307 ft)		Church of the Savior on Blood Church of the Savior on Blood The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ , its official name...		St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
m (307 ft)		St. Ulrich und Afra		Augsburg Augsburg Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria in Germany. It is a College town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
m (306.5 ft)		Cathedral of St. Paul		St. Paul, Minnesota
m (305 ft)		Eusebiuskerk		Arnhem Arnhem Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...
m (305 ft)		St. James' Cathedral		Toronto Toronto Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...
m (304 ft)		Nicolaikirche		Lüneburg Lüneburg Lüneburg, also known as Lueneburg and Lunenburg in English, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 45 km — a thirty-minute train ride — southeast of fellow Hanseatic city Hamburg. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and one of Hamburg's inner...		church built from 1407 to 1440, new spire built from 1831 to 1895
m (303 ft)		Grote Kerk		The Hague The Hague The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
m (303 ft)		Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. It was founded in 1960 by D. James Kennedy , who served as the church's senior pastor until his death in 2007. The present church seating 2,800 persons was...		Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of Broward County. According to 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city had a population of 183,606...
m (302 ft)		Cathedral		Murcia Murcia Murcia is a city in south-eastern Spain, capital of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, located along the river Segura. Its current population is 433,850 , ranking seventh in Spain, and the population of the metropolitan area is 743,326, ranking ninth out of the largest metropolitan...
m (301 ft)		New Cathedral New Cathedral, Salamanca The New Cathedral of Salamanca, Spain, is, near the Old Cathedral, one of the two cathedrals of the city. It was constructed between the 16th in and 18th centuries in two styles: late Gothic and Baroque. Building began in 1513 and the cathedral was consecrated in 1733. It was commissioned by...		Salamanca Salamanca Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca, which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon...
m (301 ft)		Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt		Schlanders Schlanders Schlanders is a comune in the province of Bolzano-Bozen in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 70 km northwest of the city of Trento and about 50 km west of the city of Bolzano ....
m (300 ft)		National Cathedral Washington National Cathedral Washington National Cathedral, whose official name is the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church....		Washington, DC
m (300 ft)		St. Francis DeSales Church		St. Louis, Missouri
m (299 ft)		Grote Kerk		The Hague The Hague The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 and an area of approximately 100 km²...
m (299 ft)		St. Andreas		Braunschweig
m (300 ft)		Cathedral of Hope		Pittsburgh
m (300 ft)		St. Mary's Basilica		Kevelaer Kevelaer Kevelaer is a municipality in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is the best visited Catholic pilgrimage location within north-western Europe. More than 800,000 pilgrims, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit Kevelaer every year to honor the Virgin Mary.The...
m (297 ft)		Långe Jan Långe Jan Långe Jan , "långe" meaning tall or the tall, and "Jan" an alternate form of the name John, is a Swedish lighthouse located at the south cape of Öland, the second largest Swedish island...		Middelburg Middelburg Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated on the peninsula of Walcheren. It has a population of about 46,600.- History of Middelburg :...		the tower was rebuilt after destruction by Luftwaffe bombings in 1940
m (297 ft)		Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion...		Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....		cathedral itself dates from 1077
m (295 ft)		Notre-Dame Cathedral		Paris Paris Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
m (295 ft)		Cathedral Cathedral of Toledo The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo, also called Primate Cathedral of Toledo, is a church in Spain. The seat of the Archdiocese of Toledo, it is one of the three 13th century High Gothic cathedrals in Spain and is considered to be the pinnacle of the Gothic style in Spain...		Toledo Toledo, Spain Toledo is a municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha...
m (295 ft)		Old Cathedral Coventry Cathedral Coventry Cathedral, also known as St Michael's Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The current bishop is the Right Revd Dr Christopher Cocksworth....		Coventry Coventry Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham with a population of 300,848...		the spire was the only part of the cathedral that survived intact when it was bombed in 1940
m (295 ft)		St. Colman's Cathedral Cobh Cathedral St. Colman’s Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Cobh, Ireland. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Cloyne.-Background:...		Cobh Cobh Cobh is a sheltered seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland with a population of around 13,000 inhabitants....
m (295 ft)		Cathedral of Santa Eulalia Cathedral of Santa Eulalia The Cathedral of Santa Eulalia is the Gothic cathedral seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain. . The cathedral was constructed throughout the 13th to 15th centuries, with the principal work done in the 14th century...		Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
m (295 ft)		Cathedral		Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava...
m (295 ft)		Neue evangelische Garnisonkirche		Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
m (295 ft)		St. Nikolajs		Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...
m (295 ft)		St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) St Mary's Cathedral or the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, Scotland.-History:...		Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the second largest Scottish city, after Glasgow, and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas....
m (295 ft)		St. James' Parish Church St. James Church, Louth St. James' Church, Louth is a parish church in the Church of England in Louth, Lincolnshire, England.-History:It is a medieval building. At tall, it has the tallest spire in England of any Anglican parish church, and the second highest spire of any parish church after the Roman Catholic Church of...		Louth Louth, Lincolnshire Louth is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Known as the "capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds", it is situated where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud, and has a total resident population of 15,930.The Greenwich...		reputedly the tallest Anglican parish church in the UK
m (295 ft)		Garnisonkirche St. Martin		Dresden Dresden Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
m (295 ft)		Georgskirche		Nördlingen Nördlingen Nördlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Bavaria, Germany, with a population of 20,000. It is located in the middle of a giant meteorite crater, called the Nördlinger Ries. The town was also the place of two battles during the Thirty Years' War...
m (295 ft)		El Escorial El Escorial El Escorial is a historical residence of the king of Spain. It is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery, royal palace, museum, and school...		San Lorenzo de El Escorial San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid San Lorenzo de El Escorial is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, near the Spanish capital of Madrid. Its population in 2002 was 13,162....
m (295 ft)		Abbaye-aux-Hommes Abbaye-aux-Hommes The Abbaye aux Hommes is a former abbey church in the French city of Caen, Normandy. Dedicated to Saint Stephen , it is considered, along with the neighbouring Abbaye aux Dames, to be one of the most notable Romanesque buildings in Normandy. Like all the major abbeys in Normandy, it was Benedictine...		Caen Caen Caen is a commune in north-western France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region...		formerly much taller
m (295 ft)		Saint-Eloi		Dunkirk Dunkirk Dunkirk is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies 10 kilometres from the Belgian border. The population of the city at the 1999 census was 70,850 inhabitants...
m (295 ft)		Basilica of the Sacred Heart Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Belgium The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic Minor Basilica and parish church in Brussels. The church was dedicated to the Sacred Heart, inspired by the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Symbolically King Leopold II laid the first stone of the basilica in 1905 during the...		Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium...
m (294 ft)		Vor Frelsers Kirke		Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...
m (292 ft)		St. Bavo's Cathedral Saint Bavo Cathedral thumb|right|225px|Sint-Baafs CathedralThe Saint Bavo Cathedral is the seat of the diocese of Ghent. It is named for Saint Bavo of Ghent....		Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
m (292 ft)		St. Mary Redcliffe		Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff.With an estimated population of 416,400 for the unitary authority in mid-2007, and a surrounding urban area with an estimated 561,500 residents, it is England's sixth, and...		second-highest parish church spire in England; the previous spire collapsed in a storm in the 1440s
m (291 ft)		Templo Votivo de Maipú		Maipu Maipú Maipú may refer to:*Argentina**Maipú, Buenos Aires, district capital of Maipú Partido.**Maipú Department, Chaco**Maipú Department, Mendoza**Maipú, Mendoza*Chile**Maipú, Chile...		Tallest Church in Chile
m (290 ft)		Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the metropolitan church of the ecclesiastical Northern Province. The cathedral was built in 1856 in St...		Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
m (289 ft)		Peterskirche		Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
m (288 ft)		Washington Temple Washington D.C. Temple The Washington D.C. Temple is the 18th constructed and 16th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.-Overview:...		Kensington		tallest LDS Mormon