• The most important church in Christendom, Saint Peter's Basilica is one of Rome's great landmarks. ... St. Peter's Basilica was officially consecrated in 1626.
  • Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. The dome was completed in 1590 CE and the church was consecrated in 1626 CE.
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  • St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican was until recently the largest church ever built and it remains one of the holiest and most important sites in Christendom.
  • St. Peters Basilica was the largest church in the world until 1989 when the church of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro was completed.
  • Inside St. Peters Basilica. It took over a century to build the most significant church in the world, so the interior simply had to impress. There are five doors
  • We invite you to Vatican to explore the famous St. Peter's Basilica. See Michelangelo's Pietà, Bernini's Baldacchino, and more priceless works.
  • The floor plan further below of the inside of St Peters Basilica with map of items 1-89 listing the different statues, chapels and points of interest.
  • Location: St. Peter´s sits in the Vatican City, a walled section of western Rome that in a 1929 treaty became a sovereign state with the pope as chief executive.
  • ...to Katharine Eustace , editor of The Sculpture Journal) was only 25 years old when Pope Urban VIII commissioned him to fashion the altar of St. Peters Basilica.