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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen is located in Greater Poland in a village called Stary Licheń, near Konin.

 

The Sanctuary is Poland's largest church, the seventh largest in Europe and eleventh in the World. It was constructed between 1994 and 2004. The architect was Barbara Bielecka.

The Basilica is being built in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary and receives a large number of pilgrims. It houses a 200-year-old painting known as the "Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland".

 

The church, rising 98 meters (central nave), 141,5 metres (church tower), is 120 metres long and 77 metres in width.

 

'The church, produced by Michael Gill of InnovationsUK.com Ltd in Sarisbury Green, near Southampton, was on display at the National Christian Resources Exhibition at Sandown Park Exhibition Centre in Esher, Surrey.'

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  The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, also known as Basilique de Notre Dame de la Paix de Yamoussoukro, is a Roman Catholic church in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Often ranked as the largest Christian church in the world, the basilica was constructed between 1985 and 1989 at a cost of $300 million, and was intentionally modeled after the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City. The cornerstone was laid on August 10, 1985, and it was consecrated on September 10, 1990, by Pope John Paul II.

 

Contrary to popular belief, this particular basilica is not a cathedral. The nearby Cathedral of Saint Augustine is the principal place of worship and seat of the bishop of the Diocese of Yamoussoukro.

Guinness World Records lists it as the largest church in the world, having surpassed the previous recordholder, St. Peter's Basilica, upon completion. Our Lady of Peace has a greater surface, and a higher dome, than St. Peter's[1]. However, it also includes a refectory and a villa, which are not strictly part of the church, and it can accommodate 18,000 worshippers, compared to 60,000 for St. Peter's

 

While designed after the Vatican Basilica, architect Pierre Fakhoury constructed the dome to be slightly lower than the Basilica of Saint Peter but is ornamented with a larger cross on top. The finished height is 158 meters (518 feet). The basilica is constructed with marble imported from Italy and is furnished with 7,000 square meters of contemporary stained glass from France. Columns are plentiful throughout the basilica but are not uniform in style. There is enough space to seat 7,000 people in the nave with standing room for an additional 11,000 people. Apart from the basilica are two identical buildings each serving as rectory and private papal villa, respectively. The villa is reserved for papal visits, of which only one has occurred.

The basilica was met with some controversy globally when construction began. The lavishly-built basilica sits in the middle of the African bush in an impoverished city where only a minority of homes have running water and adequate sanitation. The cost of the basilica doubled the national debt of Côte d'Ivoire, but many of the country's Roman Catholics are proud of the church.

Côte d'Ivoire President Félix Houphouët-Boigny chose his birthplace of Yamoussoukro to be the future site of the new capital city of his country in 1983. As part of the plan of the city, the president wanted to memorialize himself with the construction of what he called the greatest church in the world. As construction was nearly completed, the president commissioned a stained glass window of his image to be placed beside a gallery of stained glass of Jesus and the apostles.

Pope John Paul II insisted as a condition of his attendance of the consecration that a hospital be constructed nearby. The Pope laid the founding stone for the hospital. The stone can be seen where he laid it as a lonely symbol in the middle of a nearby field, as the hospital has not been built.

 

the basilica is second only to the vatican in numbers of pilgrims

designed by Mexican Architecct Pedro Ramírez Vásquez, completed in 1976

 

The design proposed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is one of the great unrealised buildings of the 20th century. At a time when architects were rejecting historicism and tradition, Lutyens' cathedral drew inspiration from Byzantine and romanesque architecture, from the architecture of ancient Rome, from its revival during the Italian renaissance and from Christopher Wren's 'English renaissance'. Lutyens planned an awe-inspiring building of immense size. It would have dominated the Liverpool skyline, far outstripping Giles Gilbert Scott's Anglican cathedral in prominence.

 

Work was halted in 1941 because of the war, leaving parts of the crypt unfinished. By this time four million bricks and 40,000 cubic feet of granite had been laid and 70,000 tons of earth had been excavated--this was a building operation of enormous size even though it formed only a minute proportion of the projected structure. (4) After the war, the construction of the crypt was resumed under the direction of Adrian Gilbert Scott and the building was brought to a uniform level, leaving a vast paved floor slab above the crypt.

 

A project for a smaller domed building by Adrian Gilbert Scott was put forward but soon abandoned, and in 1959 a competition was held for a cathedral in a 'modern' style on the site. The present building, by Sir Frederick Gibberd, was opened in 1967. Built on a centralised plan in accordance with the new liturgical requirements, it is entirely different in its architectural language, materials and philosophy.

Lutyens' design can be reconstructed from the many surviving drawings. It can also be partially experienced in the crypt, where the massive vaulted spaces, constructed of brick (and intended to be faced in granite), inspire the feelings of mystery that Lutyens envisaged for the main interior. But the best way to understand his conception is from the great wooden model in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Fig. 2). The model illustrates, as no drawing could, the complexity and sophistication of Lutyens' conception. It is the most elaborate architectural model attempted in Britain in the 20th century and the most ambitious British architectural model of any century, after the 'Great Model' of Sir Christopher Wrens rejected design for St Patti's Cathedral. It is an exemplar of a tradition that has now been superseded and whose techniques have largely been lost.

The Cathedral would have been far and away the largest church on earth... go Scousers!

 

 

Sandham Memorial Chapel is in the village of Burghclere, Hampshire, England. It is a Grade I listed 1920s decorated chapel, designed by Lionel Pearson to house war paintings. The chapel surrounded by lawns and orchards, with views of Watership Down. It is now run by the National Trust and is open to the public.

The chapel is mainly known for its murals by the 20th-century English artist Stanley Spencer from Cookham, inspired by his experience of World War I. He was influenced by Giotto’s Arena Chapel murals in Padua, Italy. The murals took five years to complete and are considered to be amongst his finest work.