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St. Peter's Basilica, the largest church in the world.
This article lists the largest church buildings as measured by various criteria.
Contents
1 Scope
2 Measurements
3 By height
4 By length
5 See also
6 References
Scope[edit]
The term church is open to interpretation and debate. In this article, it means any building that was built for the primary purpose of weekly public Christian worship. The list does include at least one building—the Hagia Sophia—that was originally a church but later became a mosque and is now a museum. The list does not include some buildings from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Two of their buildings are significantly larger than any buildings on the list - the Conference Center in Salt Lake City is 130,000 square meters and the Salt Lake Temple is over 23,500 square meters. However neither of those buildings are used for public worship weekly. They also have scores of other temples that are large enough to be included, but are similarly not used for public worship, which are found at List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Measurements[edit]
Whilst claims are made about the relative size of churches many of these claims are not easily substantiated. "Largest" is at best a vague term, which is often not qualified by claimants. Accepted measures of largeness could include area, volume, length, width, height, and/or capacity, although the last is far more subjective. It is important to note therefore that churches may claim to be "the largest" based on only one of these measurements; and thus that there may be several churches that have claims to be "the largest church". Since there is no official body governing these claims, there is no generally accepted criterion for being "the largest church".
The list below attempts to rank churches by different (more-or-less) objective criteria, and thus may generate different orders depending on the measure used. Churches for which claims are made but dimensions cannot be found are not included on the below lists.
For length, width and height, there is usually a definitive statistic for each church, which can easily be compared. However, for area and volume, the situation is often more complex. It is often possible to find multiple values quoted for the area/volume of a church in references. Many values appear to be estimates or approximations (especially for volume), or may have been calculated by multiplying lengths, widths and heights. In the latter case, the exact dimensions used (internal vs. external, etc.) may give very different figures. Therefore, although area and volume are the most common 'largeness' measures, they are also apt to be the least reliable. This should be borne in mind when comparing church sizes.
Area (m²)
Gross volume (m³)
Name
Built
City
Country
Denomination
Comment
15,160 (interior)[1][2]
21,095 (exterior)[1] 5,000,000[3] St. Peter's Basilica 1506–1626 Vatican City Vatican City Catholic (Latin) Area can be verified on a plan printed as 205% size in 1:1000 scale to match a 41.47 m dome internal diameter
12,000 1,200,000[4] Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida 1955–80 Aparecida Brazil Catholic (Latin) Church dimensions 173×168 m yielding a maximum area of 29,000 m²[5]
11,520[6] (It may be larger, the size remains a subject of debate) 500,000 + Seville Cathedral 1401–1528 Seville Spain Catholic (Latin) According to UNESCO, the largest Gothic cathedral[7]
Burial site of Christopher Columbus[8]
11,700 (interior) [9] 440,000 [10] Milan Cathedral 1386–1965 Milan Italy Catholic (Ambrosian Rite) One of the largest Gothic cathedral in the world
11,600 [11] First Family Church Overland Park, Kansas United States First Family Church Closed in 2011. Now the Hilltop Learning Center in the Blue Valley School District[12][13]
11,200[3] 480,000[14] Cathedral of Saint John the Divine 1892–present New York City United States Anglican (Episcopal Church in the U.S.) Unfinished, lacking transepts among other components
10,090 300,000[15] Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń 1994–2004 Licheń Stary Poland Catholic (Latin) 9,240 m²[15] or 10,090 m²
9,687[16] 450,000 + Liverpool Cathedral 1904–78 Liverpool United Kingdom Anglican (Church of England)
8,700[17] 130,000 Church of the Most Holy Trinity 2004-07 Fátima Portugal Catholic (Latin) Area given as 12,000m²[4]
8,515 Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls IV–1823 Rome Italy Catholic (Latin) One nave & four aisles by 80 columns
8,318[18] Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar 1681–1872 Zaragoza Spain Catholic (Latin)
8,300 Florence Cathedral 1296–1436 Florence Italy Catholic (Latin) Largest brick and mortar dome in the world
8,260 (6,029 interior) 190,000 Ulm Minster 1377–1890 Ulm Germany Lutheran World's tallest and one of the largest brick churches
8,000 Basilica of the Sacred Heart 1905–70 Koekelberg (Brussels) Belgium Catholic (Latin)
8,167 Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe 1974–76 Mexico City Mexico Catholic (Latin) Circular base of 102 m in diameter[19]
8,000[20] Cathedral of Our Lady 1352–1521 Antwerp Belgium Catholic (Latin)
8,000 Rio de Janeiro Cathedral 1964-76 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Catholic (Latin) External diameter is 106 meters
7,989 (interior)
30,000 (exterior)[21] Basilica of Our Lady of Peace 1985–89 Yamoussoukro Ivory Coast Catholic (Latin) The enclosed area approximately 8,000 m²[22]
7,960 255,800 [23] Hagia Sophia 532–537 Istanbul Turkey Orthodox (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Was the largest church in the world for a millennium, now a museum.
7,920 258,000 San Petronio Basilica[24] 1390–1479 Bologna Italy Catholic (Latin) World's largest Gothic brick church
7,914 407,000[25] Cologne Cathedral 1248–1880 Cologne Germany Catholic (Latin) Gross volume without buttresses
7,875[2] St Paul's Cathedral 1677–1708 London United Kingdom Anglican (Church of England)
7,712[26] Washington National Cathedral 1907–90 Washington, DC United States Anglican (Episcopal Church in the U.S.)
7,700[27] 200,000 (interior only) Amiens Cathedral 1220–70 Amiens France Catholic (Latin) Gross volume slightly below 400,000
7,700 Abbey of Santa Giustina 1501–1606[28] Padua Italy Catholic (Latin)
7,097 (interior)
12,069 (exterior)[29] Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 1919–61 Washington, DC United States Catholic (Latin) Completed Trinity Dome in 2017
7,000 (estimated) Calvary Temple 2012[30] Hyderabad, India India Calvary Temple
6,968 Cathedral of La Plata 1884-1932 La Plata Argentina Catholic (Latin) Largest church in Argentina
6,825 660,000 Saint Joseph's Oratory 1904–67 Montreal Canada Catholic (Latin) Exterior dome rises 263 m above sea level; highest point in Montreal
6,732 Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral 1573-1813 Mexico City Mexico Catholic (Latin)
6,655 160,000 (interior) Palma Cathedral 1220-1346 Palma, Majorca Spain Catholic (Latin) With the largest rosette Gothic world
6,650 Reims Cathedral 1211–75 Reims France Catholic (Latin) The longest church in France; 149.17 m
6,044 Strasbourg Cathedral 1015–1439 Strasbourg France Catholic (Latin) World's tallest building 1647-1874
6,038 Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels 1998–2002 Los Angeles United States Catholic (Latin)
6,020[31] 43,300 De Hoeksteen, Barneveld 2007–08 Barneveld Netherlands Calvinist
6,000 Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church 1991-2004 San Giovanni Rotondo Italy Catholic (Latin) Vaulted church holding 6,500 seats
5,900 Bourges Cathedral 1195-1230 Bourges France Catholic (Latin)
5,660 Esztergom Basilica 1822–69 Esztergom Hungary Catholic (Latin) World's largest altarpiece painting on a single canvas
5,500 Notre Dame de Paris 1163–1345 Paris France Catholic (Latin)
5,400 Sagrada Familia 1882–present Barcelona Spain Catholic (Latin) Will be the tallest church in the world when finished (172,5m)
5,300 São Paulo Cathedral 1913-1954 São Paulo Brazil Catholic (Latin) Capacity for 8,000 people
5,300 Primate Cathedral of Bogotá 1807-23 Bogotá Colombia Catholic (Latin)
5,240 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 1839–83 Moscow Russia Orthodox (Moscow Patriarchate) Rebuilt during 1995-2000
5,200 Chartres Cathedral 1145-1220 Chartres France Catholic (Latin) Ground area 10,875 square meters
5,170 New Cathedral, Linz 1862–1924 Linz Austria Catholic (Latin)
5,038[32] Provo ward conference center 2012 Provo, Utah United States The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [33]
5,017 Westminster Cathedral 1895–1910 London United Kingdom Catholic (Latin)
5,000 185,000–190,000 St. Mary's Church[34] 1343–1502 Gdańsk Poland Catholic (Latin) One of the largest Gothic brick churches north of the Alps
5,000 137,000 Holy Trinity Cathedral 1995–2004 Tbilisi Georgia Orthodox (Patriarchate of Georgia) Description see[35]
4,968[36] Winchester Cathedral 1079–1525 Winchester United Kingdom Anglican (Church of England) The longest Gothic Cathedral in Europe.
4,800 Dresden Cathedral 1739-55 Dresden Germany Catholic (Latin) Largest church in all of Saxony
4,500 Basilica of St. Thérèse, Lisieux 1929-54 Lisieux France Catholic (Latin)
4,320[37] Basilica de San Martin de Tours (Taal) 1856–78 Taal, Batangas Philippines Catholic (Latin)
4,273[38] Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire 1083–1375 Ely United Kingdom Anglican (Church of England) Third-largest medieval Cathedral in the United Kingdom
4,188 185,000–190,000[39] Frauenkirche 1468–1525 Munich Germany Catholic (Latin) One of the largest Gothic brick churches north of the Alps and the largest hall church
4,130 Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (St. Louis) 1907-14 St. Louis United States Catholic (Latin) 7,700 square meters, largest mosaic collection in the world
4,000 Saint Isaac's Cathedral 1818–58 Saint Petersburg Russia Orthodox (Moscow Patriarchate)
4,000 (Estimated) Lincoln Cathedral 1185-1311 Lincoln, England United Kingdom Anglican
3,822 Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan 1997–2001 Yerevan Armenia Armenian Apostolic Church
3,500[40] 170,000[40] Church of Saint Sava 1935–89 Belgrade Serbia Orthodox (Serbian Orthodox Church) The largest church in Southeastern Europe.
3,170[41] Alexander Nevsky Cathedral 1882–1912 Sofia Bulgaria Orthodox (Patriarchate of Bulgaria)
2,972 Westminster Abbey 960-18c London United Kingdom Anglican (Church of England)
2,800[42] Medak Cathedral 1914–26 Medak India Anglican (Church of South India)
2,500[43] [44] Nashville Stake Center 2015 Nashville, Tennessee United States The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2,300 Our Lady of Dolours Syro-Malabar Catholic Basilica 1929-2005 Our Lady of Dolours Syro-Malabar Catholic Basilica India Catholic (East Syriac Rite) It has the 3rd tallest tower in Asia
2,135 64,040[45] Basilica of St. John the Baptist 1839–55 St. John's Canada Catholic (Latin) The largest church in eastern Canada
2,025 Myeongdong Cathedral 1892-1898 Seoul Korea Catholic (Latin) In 1898, largest building in Seoul
1,760 32,162[46] All Saints Cathedral, Halifax 1907–10 Halifax Canada Anglican (Church of Canada) The largest Anglican cathedral church in Canada
By height[edit]
Main article: List of tallest churches
By length[edit]
Main article: List of longest church buildings
See also[edit]
List of highest church naves
List of the largest Protestant churches
List of the largest Protestant churches in the USA
List of largest Orthodox cathedrals
Megachurch
References[edit]
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San Petronio de Bologna: The footplan of the building is a simple rectangle
Area = length of the building x width of the building = 132 m x 60 m
The volume, without the roofs, can be calculated as a sum of five cuboids, one single (the central nave) and two pairs (the aisles and the files of chapels). The sum each of the pairs can be calculated as one cuboid of double width. Knowing the height of the central nave and the width of the building, the measures of the sections can be calculated by measuring an orthograde photo of the facade.
Volume = (traverse section of the central nave [width = 22 m, height = 44.27 m] + sum of the traverse sections of the two aisles [width = 20 m, height = 29.06 m] + sum of the traverse sections of the two files of chapels [width = 18 m, height = 22.38 m]) x length of the building [132 m]
(973.94 + 581.2 + 402.84) x 132 = 1,957.98 x 132 = 258,453.36
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2006 FIFA World Cup Final
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The final was played at Berlin's Olympiastadion.
Event
2006 FIFA World Cup
Italy
France
1
1
After extra time
Italy won 5–3 on penalties
Date
9 July 2006
Venue
Olympiastadion, Berlin
Man of the Match
Andrea Pirlo (Italy)[1]
Referee
Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)
Attendance
69,000
Weather
Clear
25 °C (77 °F)[2]
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2010 →
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 9 July 2006 at the Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany, to determine the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Italy beat France on penalties after the match finished 1–1 after extra time. France's Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last-ever match, for headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi's chest in retaliation to Materazzi's verbal provocation.
It was the first final since 1978 in which neither Germany nor Brazil competed (and the second since 1938); it was also the first all-European final since Italy won the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and the second final to be decided on penalties (1994 was the first, with Italy losing on that occasion). It was also Italy's first world title in 24 years, and their fourth overall, putting them one ahead of Germany/West Germany and only one behind Brazil. The penalty shoot-out victory for Italy was that country's first in the World Cup Finals: Italy's three previous penalty shoot-out competitions (including the 1994 final) had all been lost. The victory also led to Italy topping the FIFA World Rankings in February 2007 for the first time since November 1993.
Contents
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1 Route to the final
2 Pre-match
3 Match
3.1 Summary
3.2 Details
3.3 Statistics
4 Aftermath
4.1 Provocation of Zidane
4.2 Reactions
5 Viewer figures
6 See also
7 References
Route to the final[edit]
Italy
Round
France
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
Ghana 2–0 Match 1 Switzerland 0–0
United States 1–1 Match 2 South Korea 1–1
Czech Republic 2–0 Match 3 Togo 2–0
Team
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W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Italy 3 2 1 0 5 1 +4 7
Ghana 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6
Czech Republic 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
United States 3 0 1 2 2 6 −4 1
Final standings
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D
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GD
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France 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5
South Korea 3 1 1 1 3 4 −1 4
Togo 3 0 0 3 1 6 −5 0
Opponent Result Knockout stage Opponent Result
Australia 1–0 Round of 16 Spain 3–1
Ukraine 3–0 Quarter-finals Brazil 1–0
Germany 2–0 (aet) Semi-finals Portugal 1–0
Pre-match[edit]
The opening performance was by singers Shakira and Wyclef Jean, who performed a special version of "Hips Don't Lie" called The Bamboo Version.
Match[edit]
Summary[edit]
Zidane during the 2006 World Cup Final
The final started with each side scoring within the first 20 minutes. Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a seventh-minute penalty kick,[3] conceded by Marco Materazzi, which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and into the goal. Materazzi then levelled the scores in the 19th minute, a header from six yards following an Andrea Pirlo corner from the right. Both teams had chances to score the winning goal in normal time: Luca Toni hit the crossbar in the 35th minute for Italy, later having a header disallowed for offside, while France were not granted a possible second penalty in the 53rd minute when Florent Malouda went down in the box after a cover tackle from Gianluca Zambrotta. France appeared to be the side with better chances to win because of the higher number of shots on goal. They were unable to capitalise, however, and the score remained at one goal each.
At the end of the regulation 90 minutes, the score was still level at 1–1, and the match was forced into extra time. Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon made a potentially game-saving save in extra time when he tipped a Zidane header over the crossbar.
As Zidane and Materazzi were jogging up the pitch close to each other, they briefly exchanged words after Materazzi was seen tugging at Zidane's jersey before Zidane began to walk away from him. Moments later, Zidane suddenly stopped, turned around and head-butted Materazzi's chest, knocking him to the ground. Although play was halted, referee Horacio Elizondo did not appear to have seen the confrontation. According to match officials' reports, fourth official Luis Medina Cantalejo informed Elizondo of the incident through his headset.[4] After consulting his assistants, Elizondo issued Zidane a red card in the 110th minute.[5] It marked the 14th overall expulsion of Zidane's career, and joined him with Cameroon's Rigobert Song as the only players ever to be sent off during two separate World Cup tournaments.[6] He also became the fourth player red-carded in a World Cup final, in addition to being the first sent off in extra time.[7]
Extra time produced no further goals and a penalty shoot-out followed, which Italy won 5–3. France's David Trezeguet, the man who scored the golden goal against Italy in the Euro 2000 final, was the only player not to score his penalty; his spot kick hit the crossbar, leaving Fabio Grosso – who scored Italy's first goal in the semi-final against Germany – to score the winning penalty.[8]
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9 July 200620:00
Italy
1–1 (a.e.t.)
France
Materazzi 19'
Report
Zidane 7' (pen.)
Penalties
Pirlo
Materazzi
De Rossi
Del Piero
Grosso
5–3
Wiltord
Trezeguet
Abidal
Sagnol
Olympiastadion, Berlin[9]
Attendance: 69,000[9]
Referee: Horacio Elizondo (Argentina)[9]
Italy
France
GK 1 Gianluigi Buffon
RB 19 Gianluca Zambrotta 5'
CB 5 Fabio Cannavaro (c)
CB 23 Marco Materazzi
LB 3 Fabio Grosso
RM 16 Mauro Camoranesi 86'
CM 8 Gennaro Gattuso
CM 21 Andrea Pirlo
LM 20 Simone Perrotta 61'
SS 10 Francesco Totti 61'
CF 9 Luca Toni
Substitutions:
MF 4 Daniele De Rossi 61'
FW 15 Vincenzo Iaquinta 61'
FW 7 Alessandro Del Piero 86'
Manager:
Marcello Lippi
GK 16 Fabien Barthez
RB 19 Willy Sagnol 12'
CB 15 Lilian Thuram
CB 5 William Gallas
LB 3 Éric Abidal
CM 4 Patrick Vieira 56'
CM 6 Claude Makélélé 76'
RW 22 Franck Ribéry 100'
AM 10 Zinedine Zidane (c) 110'
LW 7 Florent Malouda 111'
CF 12 Thierry Henry 107'
Substitutions:
MF 18 Alou Diarra 56'
FW 20 David Trezeguet 100'
FW 11 Sylvain Wiltord 107'
Manager:
Raymond Domenech
Man of the Match:
Andrea Pirlo (Italy)[1]
Assistant referees:
Dario García (Argentina)
Rodolfo Otero (Argentina)
Fourth official:
Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
Fifth official:
Victoriano Giraldez Carrasco (Spain)
Match rules:
90 minutes
30 minutes of extra time if scores level
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
12 substitutes named, of which three may be used
Statistics[edit]
Overall[9]
Italy
France
Goals scored
1 1
Total shots
5 13
Shots on target
3 6
Ball possession
55% 45%
Corner kicks
5 7
Fouls committed
17 24
Offsides
4 2
Yellow cards
1 3
Red cards
0 1
Aftermath[edit]
Provocation of Zidane[edit]
After video evidence suggested that Materazzi had verbally provoked Zidane, three British media newspapers claimed to have hired lip readers to determine what Materazzi had said, with The Times, The Sun and Daily Star claiming that Materazzi called Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore". Materazzi disputed this claim, eventually winning public apologies from The Sun and Daily Star in 2008,[10][11] as well as libel damages from all three British newspapers.[12]
Zidane only partly explained that repeated harsh insults about his mother had caused him to react.[13] Materazzi admitted talking trash to Zidane, but argued that Zidane's behaviour had been very arrogant and that the remarks were trivial.[14] Materazzi also insisted that he did not insult Zidane's mother (who was ill at the time), claiming, "I didn't talk about his mother, either. I lost my mother when I was fifteen, and even now I still get emotional talking about it".[15][16]
Zidane later apologised but added that he did not regret his offence because he felt that this would condone Materazzi's actions.[17] Two months later, Materazzi offered his version of events, claiming that after he had grabbed Zidane's jersey, Zidane remarked, "If you want my shirt, I will give it to you afterwards", and he replied to Zidane that he would prefer his sister, but claimed during the interview that he was unaware Zidane even had a sister.[18] Over a year after the incident, Materazzi confirmed that his precise words to Zidane were: "I prefer the whore that is your sister".[19]
Reactions[edit]
After the final, then-President of France Jacques Chirac hailed Zidane as a "man of heart and conviction".[20] Chirac later added that he found the offence to be unacceptable, but he understood that Zidane had been provoked.[21] However, French newspaper Le Figaro called the headbutt "odious" and "unacceptable".[22] Time magazine regarded the incident as a symbol for Europe's "grappling with multi-culturalism".[23] Despite the ongoing furore, Zidane's sponsors announced that they would stick with him.[24]
The incident was extensively lampooned on the Internet and in popular culture. Family Guy parodied it in the episode "Saving Private Brian", in which Zidane headbutts an old lady while delivering her a birthday cake. The Simpsons parodied it in the episode "Marge Gamer", in which Homer Simpson shouts "Zidane!", when headbutting the linesman. In addition to becoming a staple of parody via numerous online videos and GIFs, a novelty song titled Coup de Boule ("Headbutt") reached the top of the French charts.
In light of Zidane's statements, FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings to investigate the incident. FIFA also affirmed the legality of Elizondo's decision to send Zidane off, rejecting claims that Cantalejo had illegally relied on video transmission to make a decision about handling Zidane's misconduct.[25] FIFA issued a CHF 5,000 fine and a two-match ban against Materazzi, while Zidane received a three-match ban and a CHF 7,500 fine. Since Zidane had already retired, he voluntarily served three days of community service on FIFA's behalf as a substitute for the match ban.[26]
The Hidden Face of Zidane, written by journalist Besma Lahouri and published in September 2008, claimed that Zidane had expressed his regret for the incident during a conversation with his cousin.[27]
In October 2009, in an interview conducted on French radio station RTL, Zidane stated: "Let's not forget that provocation is a terrible thing. I have never been one to provoke; I have never done it. It's terrible, and it is best not to react".[28]
Viewer figures[edit]
According to FIFA, 715.1 million individuals globally watched the final match of this tournament.[29] IPG's independent media agency Initiative Worldwide estimated a 260 million people viewership.[30] The independent firm Initiative Futures Sport + Entertainment estimates it at 322 million viewers.[31]
See also[edit]
France–Italy football rivalry
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Zidane: Materazzi insulted my family". ESPNsoccernet. 12 July 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
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Jump up ^ "Sponsors stick with Zidane despite head-butt". USA Today. 11 July 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
Jump up ^ "FIFA to review dramatic World Cup final" (Press release). FIFA. 11 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
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Jump up ^ "Zidane : "C'était trop fort"". L'Équipe.fr. 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
Jump up ^ "TV Data". FIFA.com – About FIFA – Organisation – Marketing – Facts and Figures. FIFA. Archived from the original on 24 November 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009. The final Italy – France [had] a global cumulative audience of 715.1 million viewers.
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Danish West Indies
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Danish West Indies
Dansk Vestindien
Colony of Denmark-Norway (1754–1814)
Colony of Denmark (1814–1917)
1754–1917
Flag of Denmark / Denmark-Norway (until 1814)
Coat of arms of Denmark
Capital Charlotte Amalie (1672–1754 and 1871–1917)
Christiansted (1754–1871)
Languages Danish, English
Political structure Colony of Denmark-Norway (1754–1814)
Colony of Denmark (1814–1917)
Governor-General
• 1756–66 Christian Leberecht von Prøck (first)
• 1916–17 Henri Konow (last)
History
• Sold by the Danish West India Company 1754
• Treaty of the Danish West Indies March 31, 1917
Area
• [1] 400 km2 (150 sq mi)
Population
• 1911[1] est. 27,000
Currency Rigsdaler (1754–1849)
Daler (1849–1917)
Preceded by Succeeded by
Danish West India Company
United States Virgin Islands
The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles was a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 32 square miles (83 km2); Saint John with 19 square miles (49 km2); and Saint Croix with 84 square miles (220 km2). The Danish West India Guinea Company annexed the uninhabited island of Saint Thomas[2] in 1672 and St. John in 1675. In 1733, Saint Croix was purchased from the French West India Company. When the Danish company went bankrupt in 1755, the King of Denmark-Norway assumed direct control of the three islands. Britain occupied the Danish West Indies in 1801–02 and 1807–15, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Danish colonizers in the West Indies aimed to exploit the profitable triangular trade, involving the export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. The final stage of the triangle involved the export of cargos of sugar and rum to Denmark. The economy of the Danish West Indies depended on slavery. After a rebellion, slavery was officially abolished in 1848, leading to the near economic collapse of the plantations.
In 1852 the Danish parliament first debated the sale of the increasingly unprofitable colony. Denmark tried several times to sell or exchange the Danish West Indies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: to the United States and to the German Empire respectively. The islands were eventually sold for 25 million dollars to the United States, which took over the administration on 31 March 1917, renaming the islands the United States Virgin Islands.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Foundation
1.2 Danish West India Company
1.3 Later history (1801–1917)
2 Postage stamps
3 Religion
4 Slavery and property rights
5 See also
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 External links
History[edit]
See also: History of the United States Virgin Islands and Danish colonization of the Americas
Foundation[edit]
Merchants in Copenhagen asked King Christian IV for permission to establish a West Indian trading company in 1622, but by the time an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil, and Guinea was granted on 25 January 1625, the failure of the Danish East India and Iceland Companies and the beginning of Danish involvement in the Thirty Years' War dried up any interest in the idea. Prince Frederick organized a trading mission to Barbados in 1647 under Gabriel Gomez and the de Casseres brothers, but it and a 1651 expedition of two ships were unsuccessful. It was not until Erik Smit's private 1652 expedition aboard the Fortuna was successful that interest in the West Indies' trade grew into an interest in the creation of a new Danish colony.[3]
Smit's 1653 expedition and a separate expedition of five ships were quite successful, but Smit's third found his two vessels captured for a loss of 32,000 rigsdaler. In August two years later, a Danish Flotilla was destroyed by a hurricane. Smit returned from his fourth expedition in 1663 and formally proposed the settlement of St. Thomas to the king in April 1665. After only three weeks' deliberation, the scheme was approved and Smit was named governor. Settlers departed aboard the Eendragt on 1 July, but the expedition was ill-starred: the ship hit two large storms and suffered from fire before reaching its destination, and then it was raided by English privateers prosecuting the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Smit died of illness, and a second band of privateers stole the ship and used it to trade with neighboring islands. Following a hurricane and a renewed outbreak of disease, the colony collapsed, with the English departing for the nearby French colony on Sainte-Croix, the Danes fleeing to Saint Christopher, and the Dutch assisting their countrymen on Ter Tholen in stealing everything of value, particularly the remaining Danish guns and ammunition.[3]
Danish West India Company[edit]
Main article: Danish West India Company
Further information: Sugar production in the Danish West Indies
Christiansted, the main town of St. Croix in the former Danish West Indies
The Danish formed a Board of Trade in 1668 and secured a commercial treaty with Britain, providing for the unmolested settlement of uninhabited islands, in July 1670. The Danish West India Company was organized in December and formally chartered by King Christian V the next year on March 11, 1671.[4] Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, a successful trader on Saint Christopher, was made governor and the king provided convicts from his jails and two vessels for the establishment of the colony, the yacht Den forgyldte Krone[5][6] and the frigate Færøe.[7][8] Den forgyldte Krone was ordered to run ahead and wait but ended up returning to Denmark after the Færøe under Capt. Zacharias Hansen Bang was delayed for repairs in Bergen. The Færøe completed her mission alone, establishing a settlement on St. Thomas on May 25, 1672. From an original contingent of 190 – 12 officials, 116 company "employees" (indentured servants), and 62 felons and former prostitutes – only 104 remained, 9 having escaped and 77 having died in transit. Another 75 died within the first year, leaving only 29 to carry on the colony.[3]
In 1675, Iversen claimed St. John and placed two men there; in 1684, Governor Esmit granted it to two English merchants from Barbados but their men were chased off the island by two British sloops sent by Governor Stapleton of the British Leeward Islands. Further instructions in 1688 to establish a settlement on St. John seem not to have been acted on until Governor Bredal made an official establishment on March 25, 1718.[3]
The islands quickly became a base for pirates attacking ships in the vicinity and also for the Brandenburg African Company. Governor Lorentz raised enormous taxes upon them and seized warehouses and cargoes of tobacco, sugar, and slaves in 1689 only to have his actions repudiated by the authorities in Copenhagen; his hasty action to seize Crab Island prohibited the Brandenburgers from establishing their own Caribbean colony, however. Possession of the island was subsequently disputed with the Scottish in 1698 and fully lost to the Spanish in 1811.
St. Croix was purchased from the French West Indies Company in 1733. In 1754, the islands were sold to the Danish king, Frederick V of Denmark, becoming royal Danish colonies.
Later history (1801–1917)[edit]
Danish West Indies, Saint Croix, 2 dalere (1898)
The first British invasion and occupation of the Danish West Indies occurred during the French Revolutionary Wars when at the end of March 1801 a British fleet arrived at St Thomas. The Danes accepted the Articles of Capitulation the British proposed and the British occupied the islands without a shot being fired. The British occupation lasted until April 1802, when the British returned the islands to Denmark.
The second British invasion of the Danish West Indies took place during the Napoleonic Wars in December 1807 when a British fleet captured St Thomas on 22 December and Saint Croix on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless. This British occupation of the Danish West Indies lasted until 20 November 1815, when Britain returned the islands to Denmark.
By the 1850s the Danish West Indies had a total population of about 41,000 people. The government of the islands were under a governor-general, whose jurisdiction extended to the other Danish colonies of the group. However, because the islands formerly belonged to Great Britain the inhabitants were English in customs and in language. The islands of that period consisted of:[9]
A 1905 gold 20 Franc coin of the Danish West Indies, depicting Christian IX of Denmark.
St. Thomas had a population of 12,800 people and had sugar and cotton as its chief exports.[citation needed] St. Thomas city was the capital of the island, then a free port, and the chief station of the steam-packets between Southampton, in England, and the West Indies.
St. John had a population of about 2,600 people.[10][citation needed]
St. Croix, though inferior to St. Thomas in commerce, was of greater importance in extent and fertility, with 25,600 people,[citation needed] was the largest in terms of population.
On 17 January 1917, according to the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the Danish government sold the islands to the United States for $25 million ($478 million in current prices), when the United States and Denmark exchanged their respective treaty ratifications. Danish administration ended on 31 March 1917, when the United States took formal possession of the territory and renamed it the United States Virgin Islands.
The United States had been interested in the islands since at least the 1860s. The United States finally acted in 1917 because of the islands' strategic position near the approach to the Panama Canal and because of a fear that Germany might seize them to use as U-boat bases during World War I.
Postage stamps[edit]
Main article: Postage stamps and postal history of the Danish West Indies
St Thomas was a hub of the West Indies packet service from 1851 to 1885. Denmark issued stamps for the Danish West Indies from 1856 onward.
View over Charlotte Amalie
Religion[edit]
The Danish West Indies were inhabited by many different cultures, and each had its own traditions and religions. The king and the church worked closely together to maintain law and order; the church was responsible for people's moral upbringing, and the King led the civil order. There was no state-sponsored religion in Denmark until 1849, but in the Danish West Indies there had always been a great deal of religious freedom. Danish authorities tended to be lenient towards religious beliefs, but required that all citizens had to observe Danish holidays. Freedom of religion was partially granted to help settle the islands, as there was a shortage of willing settlers from Europe. This worked to an extent, seeing that a large proportion of settlers were in fact Dutch and British natives fleeing religious persecution.[11]
Jews began settling the colony in 1655, and by 1796 the first synagogue was inaugurated. In its heyday in the mid-19th century, the Jewish community made up half of the white population.[12] One of the earliest colonial governors, Gabriel Milan, was a Sephardic Jew.
In spite of a general tolerance for religion, many African religions were not recognized because they typically revolved around belief in animism and magic, beliefs which were consistently met with scorn, and were regarded as immoral and subservient. A widespread viewpoint was that if you could convert slaves to Christianity, they could have a better life, and therefore many slaves were converted.[11]
By 1900, with a population of 30,000, a fourth of the people were Roman Catholics, along with Anglicans, and some Moravians and other Protestant groups. For decades the Moravians had organized missions and also taken charge of the educational system.[13]
Slavery and property rights[edit]
Main article: Danish slave trade
Laws and regulations in the Danish West Indies were based on Denmark's laws, but the local government was allowed to adapt them to match local conditions. For example, things like animals, land, and buildings were regulated according to Danish law, but Danish law did not regulate slavery. Slaves were treated as common property, and therefore did not necessitate specific laws.
The Høgensborg estate on Sankt Croix, 1833
In 1733, differentiation between slaves and other property was implied by a regulation that stated that slaves had their own will and thus could behave inappropriately or be disobedient.[14] The regulation also stated that the authorities were to punish slaves for participating in illegal activity, but many owners punished slaves on their own. There was a general consensus that if the slaves were punished too hard or were malnourished, the slaves would start to rebel. This was born out by the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John where many plantation owners and their families were killed by the Akwamu, including Breffu, before it was suppressed later the following year.[15] In 1755 Frederick V of Denmark issued more new Regulations, in which slaves were guaranteed the right not to be separated from their children and the right to medical support during periods of illness or old age. However, the colonial government had the ability to amend laws and regulations according to local conditions, and thus the regulations were never enacted in the colony, on grounds that it was more disadvantageous than advantageous.[14]
By 1778, it was estimated that the Danish were bringing about 3,000 Africans to the Danish West Indies yearly for enslavement.[16] These transports continued until the end of 1802 when a law by Crown Prince Regent Frederik that banned the trade of slaves came into effect.[17]
When Denmark abolished slavery in 1848, many plantation owners wanted full reimbursement on the grounds that their assets were damaged by the loss of the slaves, and by the fact that they would have to pay for labor in the future. The Danish government paid fifty dollars for every slave the plantation owners had owned and recognized that the slaves' release had caused a financial loss for the owners.[14] However, the lives of the former slaves changed very little. Most were simply hired at the plantations where they had previously worked and were offered one-year contracts, a small hut, a little land and some money as part of a sharecropping system. However, as employees, former slaves were not the plantation owners' responsibility and did not receive food or care from their employers.
See also[edit]
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Denmark
Greenland
Faroe Islands
List of Governors of the Danish West Indies
Danish West Indies status referendum, 1868
Danish West Indies status referendum, 1916
Danish West Indian Islands sale referendum, 1916
Danish India
Danish Gold Coast
Danish slave trade
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Dansk Vestindia". Caplex. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
Jump up ^ Dookhan, Isaac (1994) [1974]. "3: Danish Colonial Expansion". A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press. p. 40. ISBN 9789768125057. Retrieved 2017-09-07. The Danes found no one living on St. Thomas when they landed. The English settlers who had occupied the island after the end of the first Danish settlement, had left six or seven weeks before, though the reason for their departure is not known. [...] Denmark's long association with the Virgin Islands began with this occupation of St. Thomas in 1672.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Dookhan, Isaac. A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States. Canoe Press, 1974. ISBN 9768125055.
Jump up ^ Westergaard, Waldemar. The Danish West Indies under Company Rule.
Jump up ^ Also translated as the Golden Crown and the Gilded Crown.
Jump up ^ Marcussen, Jørgen. "De Vestindiske Øer - kronologisk historisk oversigt" ["The West Indies: A Chronological Historical Overview"]. (in Danish)
Jump up ^ Also written Færø, Fero, Faero, and Pharaoh.
Jump up ^ Orlogsmuseet. "Færøe ex-Agathe (1653)".
Jump up ^ Stewart, K. J., (1864). A Geography for Beginners. Richmond, Va: J W Randloph.
Jump up ^ DK (2017-03-30). What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Before!. Dorling Kindersley Limited. ISBN 9780241308691.
^ Jump up to: a b "History: St. Criox, United States Virgin Islands Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved On 14 January 2012
Jump up ^ http://www.jewishvirginislands.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/291284/jewish/Jewish-History-on-Island.htm
Jump up ^ Kenneth Scott Latourette, Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, III: The Nineteenth Century Outside Europe: The Americas, the Pacific, Asia and Africa. (1961) pp 278-79
^ Jump up to: a b c "Begivenheder 1733" Archived 2012-01-21 at the Wayback Machine., SurtSødt Leksikon, Retrieved On 26 November 2007, In Danish
Jump up ^ Holly Kathryn Norton (2013). Estate by Estate: The Landscape of the 1733 St. Jan Slave Rebellion (PhD). Syracuse University. p. 90.
Jump up ^ Kitchin, Thomas (1778). The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe. London: R. Baldwin. p. 21.
Jump up ^ Gøbel, Erik. "Danish Shipping along the Triangular Route, 1671–1802". Scandinavian Journal of History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2011).
Bibliography[edit]
Jensen, Niklas Thode; Simonsen, Gunvor. "Introduction: The historiography of slavery in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies, c. 1950-2016." Scandinavian Journal of History Sep-Dec2016, Vol. 41 Issue 4/5, p475-494.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danish West Indies.
World Statesman
Transfer Day. From the website of Denmark's consulate on Virgin Islands on the transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States in 1917.
Reminiscences of a 46 years' residence in the island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, by Johan Peter Nissen, (1838), a history of the Danish West Indies from 1792-1838.
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