Church Spotter Showdown: Part 3

[A] Holy Trinity Cathedral | Tbilisi's golden dome crowns Georgia's religious revival, built with donations from billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili who apparently bought his way into heaven's VIP section.

[B] Winchester Cathedral | Jane Austen lies here beneath Gothic vaults stretching 169 meters, making this Europe's longest cathedral where Pride meets Perpendicular architecture.

[C] Notre Dame de Paris | Gothic stone lace rising from the Île de la Cité—where flying buttresses caught fire and spires fell, yet centuries of gargoyles still spit rain onto the booksellers of the Seine.

[A] Almudena Cathedral | Madrid waited 400 years for its cathedral, finally finishing in 1993 when Pope John Paul II consecrated this neo-Gothic latecomer facing the palace.

[D] Dresden Cathedral | Rebuilt from World War II rubble using original stones marked like a giant jigsaw puzzle, this Baroque phoenix rose from 15,000 tons of debris.

[D] Turku Cathedral | Finland's mother church survived the Great Fire of 1827 while the rest of Turku burned, apparently having better insurance with the Almighty.

[B] Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa | Peru's volcanic sillar stone cathedral survived 400 years of earthquakes by basically learning to dance with tectonic plates.

[C] Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral | Chile's neoclassical matriarch guards the tomb of first cardinal while street performers juggle fire outside, mixing sacred and circus.

[D] Basilica of St. Thérèse, Lisieux | St. Thérèse's basilica went full Byzantine in Normandy, honoring the "Little Flower" with mosaics covering 5,000 square meters of spiritual bling.

[C] Basilica de San Martin de Tours (Taal) | Asia's largest Catholic church fits 8,000 Filipinos under baroque arches that survived Taal Volcano's tantrums through pure architectural stubbornness.

[B] Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire | Its octagonal lantern defied medieval engineering logic, basically inventing new mathematics to keep 400 tons floating on faith and timber.

[D] Frauenkirche | Frauenkirche's twin towers banned other buildings from exceeding their height, giving Munich's skyline a 99-meter ceiling enforced by democracy.

[A] Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart | Newark's French Gothic arrived fashionably late to America, finishing in 1954 with more gargoyles than a medieval nightmare.

[B] Se Cathedral | Goa's Portuguese-Gothic hybrid holds the Golden Bell, Asia's largest, which supposedly rings loud enough to convert heathens three villages away.

[A] St. Stephen's Basilica | Budapest's tallest building shares its 96-meter height with Parliament, keeping church and state equally close to heaven by law.

[C] Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (St. Louis) | Contains 41.5 million glass tesserae creating the world's largest mosaic collection, essentially wallpapering God's house in Byzantine pixels.

[C] Saint Isaac's Cathedral | St. Petersburg's golden dome required 100 kilos of gold leaf while 48 granite columns weighing 114 tons each traveled by barge from Finland.

[A] Cathedral of Christ the Saviour | Stalin demolished the original for a swimming pool; post-Soviet Russia rebuilt it in five years using donations and titanium-nitride coated domes.

[D] Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan | Armenia's 1,700th Christianity anniversary gift to itself seats 1,700 people, because symbolism matters when you're the first Christian nation.

[B] Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral | Orange County’s glass-walled cathedral—once Schuller’s bankrupt Crystal TV studio—now fills the same panes with incense and chant, turning a bankrupt megachurch into America’s shiniest Catholic barn.

[B] Catedral Evangelica de Chile or Jotabeche Cathedral | Santiago’s neon-lit Pentecostal hangar—once a tin-roof revival tent—now seats 18,000 under LED crosses and thundering drums, turning Sunday into Chile’s largest indoor rock concert for the soul.

[C] Church of Saint Sava | Belgrade's Orthodox giant sat unfinished for 70 years until Russia paid for the interior, making it Serbia's most expensive thank-you note.

[A] Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine | Oklahoma's $40 million shrine honors its first martyr priest, killed in Guatemala, proving sanctity can bloom even in tornado alley.

[D] Uppsala Cathedral | Scandinavia's tallest cathedral houses King Gustav Vasa and botanist Linnaeus, mixing royal bones with scientific classification under Gothic arches.

[C] Korea Army Training Center | Military chapel proves even boot camp needs baroque, where recruits pray for survival between push-ups and kimchi rations.

[A] Grace Cathedral | San Francisco's Episcopal headquarters features labyrinths both inside and outside, because finding God in California requires options.

[D] Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Lewiston, Maine) | Franco-American mill workers built Maine's Gothic giant with pocket change, proving salvation comes in small denominations.

[B] Alexander Nevsky Cathedral | Alexander Nevsky Cathedral's gold domes shelter 273 frescos while its bells rang communism's funeral in 1989, tolling democracy's awkward birth.

[D] St. Charles Borromeo (Visalia) | California's Central Valley cathedral proves agriculture and architecture mix, rising from farmland like a particularly holy crop.

[B] Christ Cathedral | Philip Johnson's glass star became Catholic after televangelist bankruptcy, proving even architecture can have conversion experiences in Orange County.

[A] Westminster Abbey | Poets' Corner squeezes more literary genius per square meter than any library, with Shakespeare watching coronations from his memorial.

[C] St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne | Australia's tallest church took 80 years to finish its spires, finally completing them when the city discovered what Gothic actually meant.

[D] Sümi Baptist Church, Zünheboto | India's easternmost cathedral blends Naga tribal motifs with Christian imagery, creating theological fusion cuisine in architectural form.

[C] St Andrew's Cathedral, Patras | Greece's largest church holds St. Andrew's skull, returned from Rome after 500 years like the world's holiest library book.

[A] St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney | Australia's mother church replaced convict-built original after arson, upgrading from prisoner labor to professional Gothic in sandstone.

[B] St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan) | Marble spike amid Manhattan neon, 100 m of Gothic hush slamming the city’s noise outside its bronze doors.

[D] Beomeo Cathedral | Daegu’s 100-year church-warming gift—100 m of concrete, 2,500 seats, 6,200 screaming pipes and 900 m² of rainbow glass, baked with ochre bricks and open to the whole block.

[C] Helsinki Cathedral | Lutheran white elephant presides over Senate Square, its green domes visible to arriving ships like Christianity's lighthouse.

[A] Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (Santa Fe) | Adobe Romanesque proves mud and God mix well in New Mexico, where Pueblo meets Pope in architectural peace.

[B] Basilica of Our Lady of Dolours, Thrissur | India's tallest church spire reaches 260 feet, apparently competing with coconut palms for Kerala's skyline supremacy.