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What is the difference between a church, a cathedral, and a basilica?

A church is a "house of worship," a building in which Christians gather to perform the rituals of their religion and interact with one another and hold religious functions and so on. They can be very plain, very simple.

The ruins of an ancient church.

A cathedral is a church which is also the "seat," in the bureaucratic sense more than the literal sense, of a bishop (or, in some denominations, another comparably high-ranking ecclesiastical figure). You therefore ordinarily see just one cathedral per denomination per city. Because bishops are responsible for an area —in Catholicism a diocese— a cathedral can also be thought of as the church associated with the administration of an area.

In common usage, people call really big churches cathedrals pretty often, but this is imprecise and technically mistaken.

A basilica was originally a Roman building featuring certain architectural elements that supported its use as a public, open facility for business, trading, etc. These typically —but not always— included colonnades, naves, and aisles, not unlike a modern pedestrian mall.



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Floor plan of a Roman basilica; note how stalls for vendors become naves for chapels.

When some churches were built with similar features in the time of early Christianity, they were called basilicas. Later, in Catholicism, the term acquired a new meaning: the pope designates some churches basilicas for a variety of reasons, and they become important sites:
"The papal or major basilicas outrank in precedence all other churches. Other rankings put the cathedral (or co-cathedral) of a bishop ahead of all other churches in the same diocese, even if they have the title of minor basilica. If the cathedral is that of a suffragan diocese, it yields precedence to the cathedral of the metropolitan see. The cathedral of a primate is considered to rank higher than that of other metropolitan(s) in his circonscription (usually a present or historical state). Other classifications of churches include collegiate churches, which may or may not also be minor basilicas."

So basilicas as Christian buildings are mainly a Catholic phenomenon. And indeed, the world's most famous basilica is of course St. Peter's in Rome, designed in part by Michelangelo, its plaza and baldacchino by Bernini, its balcony where crowds see their pope, etc.



It's especially beautiful inside:



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Что вы думаете по этому поводу?
79 Comments
Janice Lea Vanlandingham
Marilyn Chris Scott, I quit churches and religion 50 years ago. All any of them are about is money. I believe in God and Jesus, when I feel the need to get closer to them I go the the great outdoors.That is all that is needed to be close to the father and son. Of course every one will disagree with me, but I moved beyond the small minds that reside in religion.
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27.06.2018 04:25
Barb VanDusen
Interesting but God is not found in church alone - God is omnipresent in our hearts, our homes and outdoors - anywhere and every where no matter how he is called or what faith you believe or are comfortable in
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25.10.2018 05:00
Yogi Arya
Religion is poison. The temple of good human behaviour have turned into dens if the corrupt. Wonder of wonders ! Why Does God need money ? God is unable to manage financial affairs , so people are needed to manage financial aspects ( money flowing in temples, churches, mosques, many more ) . My god is omnipresent, all powerful, all pervading & all persuasive too . In Your HEART just reach out to god , & your hand will be held.
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21.10.2019 10:08
Christine LaFrance Vischer
Sang in a mass at St Peters in 2010. The experience of a lifetime and I’m not Catholic!
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05.10.2018 09:54
Willis Marzolf
This article is rather deceiving. Biblically the church is the people or congregation. Not the structure or the building.
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17.11.2021 04:45
Kent Bullock
The Church is people not brick and mortar. 1Co 3:16  Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 1Co 3:17  If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. Today Christians are the temple.
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10.11.2019 10:02
Anita Clark Morton
I was in Rome on holiday several years ago, and toured St. Peter's. The Basilica is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! It's hard to believe the painted ceiling was painted thousands of years ago. The colors are fabulous !
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09.03.2025 07:54
werma
I also feel that nature is the best church.
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16.12.2024 05:47
Gill Brown
No Janice I don’t disagree. All you say is true. I go to church because I take my religious mum who’s 96 ( her dad was a minister) but they’re forever begging for money for “Gift Aid” ,”water aid” food bank collections and the homeless. One visiting vicar asked us to pray for the government - huh !!!?? I’m not a political fan and wouldn’t waste my breath let alone my prayers on them !! Definitely can understand why less people go to church now !!
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21.02.2023 03:42
Patricia Parraguez-Chen
Yogi Arya, beautifully said! Thanks for speaking so honestly and from your heart!
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17.02.2023 01:00
Venkataramaiah Mandalaparti
Janice Lea Vanlandingham, I often feel the pathetic way Jesus is displayed. In most of the churches Jesus is permanently hanging to the cross. Can't the Christians identify Jesus without cross?.
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23.09.2022 08:12
renegarjim
Karen Hamke-Bakeeff, I do believe but not the trash that is being spewed by our so called religious leaders. How can you follow Jesus and still have hate in your hearts??!! I will believe as I do now that all are the creation of God and not by ones who tell me that I must hate anyone! I have better things to do with my time than listen to their garbage.
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10.09.2022 05:02
dmarkc
After reading the comments, I forgot what the question was.
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11.06.2022 09:36
Karen Hamke-Bakeeff
I believe it is a way to control people.
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10.01.2022 08:57
Katherine Casey
Various as often contain a relic.
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02.12.2021 08:38
arnellb
just believe in ONE supreme being ! Be kind .....
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25.12.2020 06:19
ironheadrider
That is the difference between the church and religion. They aren't necessarily the same
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06.09.2020 06:31
Carol Butler
Janice Lea Vanlandingham, I have found Zion National Park in southern Utah a particularly good place to worship.
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08.04.2020 01:37

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