This article focuses on the largest church buildings and cathedrals for Christian worship and service around the world ...

But St. Peter’s is no longer the largest church in the Christian world—the colossal Yamoussoukro Basilica in Côte d’Ivoire has been the record holder since 1989.

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.