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The largest churches ever built - a thread 🧵

1. St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 🇻🇦 Image
It's quite ironic that the largest church in the world belongs to Vatican City, the smallest country on Earth.

St. Peter's Basilica, considered the center of the Roman Catholic faith, has been described as the "greatest of all churches of Christendom." Image
2. Milan Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
3. Liverpool Cathedral, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
4. Seville Cathedral, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
5. Florence Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
More than 500 years after its construction, Filippo Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore remains the largest brick dome ever built. Image
6. Expiatory Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
7. Cologne Cathedral, Germany 🇩🇪 Image
8. St Paul's Cathedral, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
9. St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC 🇺🇸 Image
Completed in 1878, St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest Catholic cathedral in the United States. Image
10. Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
11. Strasbourg Cathedral , France 🇫🇷 Image
12. Basilica di San Petronio, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
13. Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland 🇮🇸 Image
14. St. Basil's Cathedral, Russia 🇷🇺 Image
15. The Cathedral of Our Lady, Belgium 🇧🇪 Image
16. Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Reims, France 🇫🇷 Image
17. Orvieto Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
18. Washington National Cathedral, D.C. 🇺🇸 Image
19. Hagia Sophia, Turkey 🇹🇷 Image
20. Sagrada Família, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Image
21. Amiens Cathedral, France 🇫🇷 Image
22. Siena Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
Described by Giorgio Vasari as "the most beautiful, largest and most magnificent floor ever made", Siena Cathedral’s floor is the result of over five hundred years of artistic brilliance and craftsmanship. Image

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1. A wheat field in Manhattan, 1982 Image
2. Oppenheimer and Einstein, 1947

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1. Milan Cathedral. People indicate scale. Image
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