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Este artículo recoge, en forma de tabla, las iglesias más altas del mundo, considerando como iglesias "Iglesia (edificio)") los edificios destinados al culto cristiano.

Chronology of the tallest churches in the world

From the century until 1894, the tallest building in the world was always a church or cathedral. Old St Paul's Cathedral, with its 100-tall spire,[1]​ was completed in the century and was surpassed, early in the century, by the [2][3]​ central spire of Lincoln Cathedral. That Lincoln spire collapsed in 1549, beginning a long period in which the distinction of tallest building in the world fell to shorter buildings: first was St. Mary's Church "St. Mary's Church (Stralsund)") in Stralsund; Then, it was the central tower of St. Peter's Cathedral in Beauvais from 1569 until it collapsed in 1573, once again regaining St. Mary's status as the highest. In 1647, St. Mary's bell tower caught fire, making the even shorter Strasbourg Cathedral the tallest building in the world.

It was not until the completion of Ulm High Church in 1890 that the tallest building in the world again became the tallest building ever built, surpassing the original configuration of Lincoln Cathedral.

The table below has been arranged according to the greatest height recorded in the history of any element, which for the most part corresponds to towers, bell towers and spiers. Many of the churches have suffered damage – caused by structural defects or accidents due to earthquakes, fires or lightning strikes – that have caused partial collapses of those highest elements. These churches, including some that have completely disappeared, are inserted for indicative purposes in the table in the place that would have corresponded to them if such elements had been preserved, shading the order column. As elements of comparison, other high-rise religious buildings, such as mosques, stupas or pagodas, are included at the end of the table.

Articles of taller churches by country are available in Germany (144), France (48), Poland (29), Austria (22), Belgium (21), the Netherlands (20), the United Kingdom (18) and Switzerland (9), so churches from those countries that are less than 80 m are not collected here. On the other hand, if the churches from other countries are collected up to a height of 70 m, without participating in the general ranking and only maintaining the ranking by country.

In the country ranking column, a green top band is used to highlight the highest churches in each country.

The table can be sorted by any of the fields by clicking on the arrows that appear in the first row of each column ().