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."
2. Milan Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹
3. Liverpool Cathedral, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
4. Seville Cathedral, Spain 🇪🇸
5. Florence Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹
More than 500 years after its construction, Filippo Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore remains the largest brick dome ever built.
6. Expiatory Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Spain 🇪🇸
7. Cologne Cathedral, Germany 🇩🇪
8. St Paul's Cathedral, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
9. St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC 🇺🇸
Completed in 1878, St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest Catholic cathedral in the United States.
10. Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Spain 🇪🇸
11. Strasbourg Cathedral , France 🇫🇷
12. Basilica di San Petronio, Italy 🇮🇹
13. Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland 🇮🇸
14. St. Basil's Cathedral, Russia 🇷🇺
15. The Cathedral of Our Lady, Belgium 🇧🇪
16. Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Reims, France 🇫🇷
17. Orvieto Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹
18. Washington National Cathedral, D.C. 🇺🇸
19. Hagia Sophia, Turkey 🇹🇷
20. Sagrada Família, Spain 🇪🇸
Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world.
21. Amiens Cathedral, France 🇫🇷
22. Siena Cathedral, Italy 🇮🇹
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.
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1. A wheat field in Manhattan, 1982
2. Oppenheimer and Einstein, 1947
This photo by A. Eisenstaedt shows Robert Oppenheimer in conversation with Albert Einstein, immortalizing the meeting of two of the most influential figures in 20th-century physics.
The colorization gives the moment an almost tangible feel.
3. A mob of outraged parents shout insults at 6-year-old Ruby Bridges as she walks into a formerly all-white school — the first Black child to do so in the American South, 1960.
The construction of this architectural marvel began in 1386 and wasn't fully completed until 1965.
It is the largest church in the Italian Republic— St. Peter's Basilica is in the Vatican, a separate sovereign state—and the third largest in the world.
2. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Situated in the center of Milan, it is Italy’s oldest active shopping gallery.
It is named in honor of Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy.