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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 27, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 9.

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BIG CHURCHES.

The following is a list of the great churches of the world. The estimate allows four persons to every square yard of space available.
Milan Cathedral stands at the head, with capacity for 37,000.
St. Paul's, 25,000.
The capacity of San Petronio, Bologna, the Florence Cathedral, and the Antwerp Cathedral is about 24,000 apiece.
That of St. Sophia, Constantinople, is 23,000.
St. John Lateran, Rome, about 22,900.
Notre Dame, Paris, 21,000.
These are the nine great churches of the world.
The Pisa Cathedral comes tenth with a capacity of 13,000.
The Cathedral of the City of Mexico and that of Notre Dame, in Montreal, are the two largest churches in North America, tho they belong to the second class, with St. Stephen, Vienna, 12,000, and St. Dominic, Bologna, 12,300.—Catholic Mirror.