Tallest Churches/Religious Buildings in the western hemisphere

[brickell]

St. Pauls Episcopal Church - Key West, FL


src: http://stpaulskeywest.org/music.html

[Trantor]

wow, thats really tall

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Trantor

edit: just to inform, found the Wikipedia page on the São João Batista Cathedral, in Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It informs the towers are 86 meters tall.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedra...C3%A3o_Batista

Its really beautiful and so huge in person. I sang inside this church Christmas 1994.

[Trantor]

damn, you know more of my state than I do! I never been to Santa Cruz do Sul.


anyway, why you, as a mormon, sang inside a catholic church? Some sort of religious friendship congress? Or you belong to a singing group not really attached to any church (multi-religious) and were invited to sing there?

[Avian001]

The Cathedral of St. Paul, in St. Paul, Minnesota. At 307 feet, the 5th tallest in North America (NOT to be confused with St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo).



And another shot during a ground fog event, as captured by Hoary Head:

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Trantor

damn, you know more of my state than I do! I never been to Santa Cruz do Sul.


anyway, why you, as a mormon, sang inside a catholic church? Some sort of religious friendship congress? Or you belong to a singing group not really attached to any church (multi-religious) and were invited to sing there?

LOL...there was a multi-faith gathering of choirs and I happened to be working there, so I was asked to sing with the Mormon choir(Im kind of a tenor). It was a lot of fun.

I love Santa Cruz. The interior of Rio Grande do Sul is still my favorite!

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Trantor

hmmm... well... officially speaking, not really, since the western hemisphere line crosses over Greenwich, France and eastern Spain.

Well, daisyau suggested churches in Milan and Rome.

Last time I checked, Milan and Rome are in Italy... which, "officially speaking", is certainly not in the western hemisphere.

Regardless, I think we all understand the intent of the thread is to find the tallest churches in the western hemisphere, meaning the New World/Americas and the islands in their adjacent waters. That has been made very clear from the beginning, especially since we started out with only the US and Canada.

The Western Hemisphere, in this sense, is commonly understood by geographers to mean the Americas; and not to include parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia... as the cartographic definition which includes parts of those is based on an entirely arbitrary meridians which adhere to convention, not on actual spatial geography.

[dimondpark]

Another thing, when I was a missionary in RS we used to do a lot of walking and sometimes when it got really hot the only place that was open for us to go sit inside without paying was Catholic churches so me and my companion would sit in the back and just cool down.

Different faith perhaps, but there is still only one God and worship is worship.

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Well, daisyau suggested churches in Milan and Rome.

Last time I checked, Milan and Rome are in Italy... which, "officially speaking", is certainly not in the western hemisphere.

I know, but you said "they were nowhere close to the western hemisphere"
and officially speaking, they are close

Regardless, I think we all understand the intent of the thread is to find the tallest churches in the western hemisphere, meaning the New World/America

I know that and agree completely. It was supposed to be an entertaining remark. I recognize I forgot to use a "" smilie.

[Martin H Unzon]

The tallest and newest of Mexico with 107.5 meters high

The construction start on 1898 but the civil war (Revolution) makes to stop the construction on 1910

in 2003 re-start the construction works and 2008 was the completion date.
The church was built in Zamora, State of Michoacan
(images from Wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_Guadalupano)

[Trantor]

some churches definitly do not look as tall as they are said to be. Sometimes, its a lack of point of reference (cars, people near it, other buildings) in the photos.

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Trantor

I know that and agree completely. It was supposed to be an entertaining remark. I recognize I forgot to use a "" smilie.

Oh, I know... I didn't think that you were completely serious or anything. I just wanted to make clear what the thread topic was about... not for you, but for others who might first join in now and possibly start posting pics from parts of Europe, Africa, Asia which are technically within the western hemisphere, by definition based on the prime meridian. My response wasn't really even meant for you, Trantor, because I know you understood the purpose of the thread.

Originally Posted by Trantor

some churches definitly do not look as tall as they are said to be. Sometimes, its a lack of point of reference (cars, people near it, other buildings) in the photos.

You're right. It's weird. And sometimes they look shorter than they actually are because of surrounding reference points. Like St. Patrick's in NYC... it doesn't seem to be as tall as it is because it is dwarfed by surrounding skyscrapers.

[pj3000]

Saint Bernard - Akron, OH
65m (213 ft)
William Ginther
1902


http://www.flickr.com/photos/75905404@N00/

[pj3000]

Mount Vernon United Methodist - Baltimore, MD
62m (203 ft)
Thomas Dixon & Charles Carson
1872
-Francis Scott Key died in a home owned by his daughter on this site in 1843


http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/

[photoLith]

Originally Posted by Martin H Unzon

The tallest and newest of Mexico with 107.5 meters high

The construction start on 1898 but the civil war (Revolution) makes to stop the construction on 1910

in 2003 re-start the construction works and 2008 was the completion date.
The church was built in Zamora, State of Michoacan
(images from Wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santuario_Guadalupano)

Wow, thats pretty incredible that they decided to start working on it again after almost 100 years went by. It sure is a beauty and it doesnt look like they skimped on cost or quality to finish it.

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Mount Vernon United Methodist - Baltimore, MD
62m (203 ft)
Thomas Dixon & Charles Carson
1872
-Francis Scott Key died in a home owned by his daughter on this site in 1843


http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/

WHAT????
who is Francis Scott Key and why is he related to this church?

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by Trantor

WHAT????
who is Francis Scott Key and why is he related to this church?

An American historic figure. He was a US military attorney and the writer of the US national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". A well-known name to Americans, but a rather obscure historic figure to anyone else... obviously

I thought the relation to the church was pretty clear. He died at that site in 1843. I was in Baltimore over the weekend, did some sightseeing in the area, and there was a plaque commemorating this.

[pj3000]

Saint Anthony of Padua - Toledo, OH
81m (265 ft)
??
1891
-closed since 2005, as the parish size diminished and the neighborhood declined


http://catholictoledo.blogspot.com/2008/03/st-anthony-toledo.html


http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/78052152/Thinkstock

[pj3000]

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - Albany, NY
??
Patrick Charles Keely
1852 (towers complete in 1862 and 1888)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/29756054@N00/

[pj3000]

Holy Rosary Cathedral - Vancover, BC, Canada
66m (217 ft)
Julien and Williams
1900


http://vcanade.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html


http://www.emporis.com/city/100997?nav=image&id=106869