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Jesús Maturana

Spirit in the sky: Barcelona's Sagrada Família becomes the world's tallest church

Thursday marked a milestone in the history of world architecture when Barcelona's Sagrada Familia officially overtook Germany's Ulm Münster as the tallest church on the planet.

At 162.91 metres high, Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece is just 1.38 metres ahead of the Gothic Lutheran cathedral in Germany, which held the record at 161.53 metres since its completion in 1890.

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