Great churches of the world
Find a church and light a candle on its live wall.
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Aachen Cathedral
Charlemagne's imperial chapel and one of Europe's oldest cathedrals, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Novosibirsk
A Neo-Byzantine Russian Orthodox cathedral in Novosibirsk, Siberia, completed in 1899 as one of the city's first stone buildings.
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
Sofia's gold-domed Neo-Byzantine cathedral, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn
An onion-domed Russian Orthodox cathedral atop Tallinn's Toompea hill.
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Almudena Cathedral
Madrid's cathedral facing the Royal Palace, built over a century and consecrated in 1993.
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Amiens Cathedral
France's largest cathedral by interior volume, a soaring masterpiece of Gothic engineering.
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Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
The cathedral of Rome and the pope's own seat, the oldest and highest-ranking of the major papal basilicas.
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Assumption Cathedral, Bangkok
A rose-red Romanesque cathedral by the Chao Phraya river, seat of Bangkok's archdiocese.
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Basílica del Voto Nacional
The largest Neo-Gothic basilica in the Americas, towering over Quito's historic center with carved stone fauna.
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Basilica di San Petronio
Bologna's vast brick Gothic basilica on Piazza Maggiore, famed for its unfinished facade and meridian line.
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Basilica di Santa Croce
Florence's principal Franciscan church and burial place of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli.
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Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
Rome's largest church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a papal basilica famed for its early Christian mosaics.
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Basilica of Bom Jesus
UNESCO-listed Baroque basilica in Old Goa holding the relics of Saint Francis Xavier.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida
The largest Marian basilica in the world, national shrine of Brazil's patroness in Aparecida.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The world's most-visited Catholic shrine, home to the venerated image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń
The largest church in Poland, a colossal modern Marian basilica crowned by a golden dome and a 141-metre tower.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth (Basílica de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré)
A Neoclassical minor basilica in Belém that is the spiritual home of the Círio de Nazaré, one of the world's largest religious processions.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace
The largest church in the world by area, a vast St. Peter's-inspired basilica rising from the savanna of Ivory Coast's capital.
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Basilica of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel
Belgium's most visited Marian pilgrimage shrine, a star-studded Baroque dome rising over the country's spiritual heart.
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Basilica of Our Lady, Tongeren
A Brabantine Gothic basilica with a UNESCO-listed belfry, anchoring the oldest Marian pilgrimage city in the Low Countries.
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Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
Padua's domed pilgrimage basilica housing the tomb of St Anthony, with art by Donatello.
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Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
The burial place of St Francis in Assisi, famed for its Giotto frescoes and as a Franciscan pilgrimage center.
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Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
One of Rome's four major papal basilicas, built over the tomb of the Apostle Paul.
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Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
A major North American pilgrimage shrine to Saint Anne, famed for reported healings and its towering twin-spired neo-Romanesque basilica.