List of high crosses

This list includes Christian crosses in the form of free-standing structures from about 30 meters in height.

designation	Location	Coordinates	Height (m)	completion position	photo	Notes and evidence
Cruz de los Caídos	Spain San Lorenzo de El Escorial	40 ° 38 '30.5 "  N , 4 ° 9" 20.1 "  W.	155	1959
Hero's Shrine Cross	Philippines Balanga	14 ° 36 '21 "  N , 120 ° 30' 31.4"  E	95	1970		Viewing platform in the arm of the cross on Mount Samat
Cruz del Tercer Milenio	Chile Coquimbo	29 ° 57 ′ 7.1 ″  S , 71 ° 20 ′ 50.4 ″  W.	87	2001		Viewing platform in the cross arm
Radio station broadcasting center, Radio Vatican	Vatican City Santa Maria di Galeria	42 ° 2 '38.9 "  N , 12 ° 19' 20.1"  E	78	1957		cruciform antenna mast
Cross of all nations	Lebanon Jounieh	33 ° 57 '54.8 "  N , 35 ° 48' 49.8"  E	73.8	2010
Millennium Cross Skopje	Macedonia Skopje	41 ° 57 '54 "  N , 21 ° 23" 39.7 "  E	66	2008
Cross of St. Augustine	United States St. Augustine , Florida	29 ° 54'15.4 "  N , 81 ° 18'48.8"  W.	63.4	1966
Cristo Glorioso de Chiapas	Mexico Tuxtla Gutiérrez	16 ° 43 '9.9 "  N , 93 ° 7' 9.9"  W.	62	2011
Haughton Cross	USA Orlando , Florida	28 ° 32 ′ 53.8 "  N , 81 ° 30 ′ 25"  W.	60.6	2008
Cross of the Church of the Cross	United States of America Haughton , Louisiana	32 ° 33 ′ 17 "  N , 93 ° 37 ′ 21.1"  W.	60.6	2009
Cross at the Crossroads	USA Effingham , Illinois	39 ° 6 ′ 27.4 "  N , 88 ° 34 ′ 16.3"  W.	60.3	2001
Cross of hope	Lebanon Ijdabra	34 ° 14 '57 "  N , 35 ° 42' 3.7"  E	60	(under construction)		High-rise in the form of a double cross with a church in a cross arm
Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ	USA Groom , Texas	35 ° 12 '35.3 "  N , 101 ° 7' 24.6"  W.	58	1995
Meskel Cross	Ethiopia Mek'ele	13 ° 29 '43.2 "  N , 39 ° 29' 17.3"  E	52	2017		Tallest cross in Africa
Sagemont cross	USA Houston , Texas	29 ° 35 '58.8 "  N , 95 ° 13' 11.6"  W.	51	2009
Aerodrome cross	Macedonia Skopje	41 ° 58 '39.6 "  N , 21 ° 27' 52.5"  E	51	2014
Artsakh Cross	Azerbaijan Dashushen		50	2017
Millennium Cross on Chełmiec	Poland Boguszów-Gorce	50 ° 46 '48.4 "  N , 16 ° 12' 41.6"  E	45	2000
Cross in the Gora Qabristan cemetery	Pakistan Karachi	24 ° 51 '16.7 "  N , 67 ° 3' 5.1"  E	43	2016
Memorial to the fallen shipyard workers from 1970	Poland Gdansk	54 ° 21 '37.9 "  N , 18 ° 38' 56.5"  E	42	1980
Cross of the La Paz Chapel	Mexico Acapulco	16 ° 49 '21.4 "  N , 99 ° 51' 21.6"  W.	42	1970
Pope Cross	Austria Vienna ( Donaupark )	48 ° 14 ′ 21.4 "  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 31.5"  E	40	1983		Erected for the papal mass on September 12, 1983
Millennium Cross Ujazd	Poland Ujazd	49 ° 48 '9.2 "  N , 21 ° 24' 6.2"  E	40	2002
Pilgrim cross on the Veitscher Mount of Olives	Austria Sankt Barbara im Mürz Valley	47 ° 34 ′ 59.8 "  N , 15 ° 29 ′ 27.1"  E	40	2004		Largest accessible wooden cross; Viewing platform in the cross arm
Trinity Cross Păun	Romania Păun	47 ° 6 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 27 ° 39 ′ 55.8 ″  E	40	2006		cruciform antenna mast
Cross of Kobayat	Lebanon Kobayat	34 ° 33 ′ 32.5 "  N , 36 ° 16 ′ 36.6"  E	40	2013
Hero's cross on the Caraiman tip	Romania Buşteni	45 ° 24 '57.6 "  N , 25 ° 29' 50.9"  E	39.5	1928
Joseph Cross	Germany Stolberg	51 ° 34 '50.1 "  N , 11 ° 0' 20.2"  E	38	1896		Double cross, viewing platform on top
Gardendale First Baptist Church Cross	USA Gardendale , Alabama	33 ° 39 '52.4 "  N , 86 ° 49' 50.1"  W.	38	2010
Cruz del Ávila	Venezuela Caracas	10 ° 31 '30.2 "  N , 66 ° 53' 6.9"  W.	37	1982
Limanowski Cross	Poland Limanowa	49 ° 43 '8.1 "  N , 20 ° 26' 26.2"  E	37	1999
Cross of Chillán Cathedral	Chile Chillan	36 ° 36 ′ 23.5 ″  S , 72 ° 6 ′ 7.7 ″  W.	36	circa 1950
Papal Cross	Ireland Dublin	53 ° 21 '23.9 "  N , 6 ° 19' 44.6"  W.	36	1979
Cross on the Chrobacza Łąka	Poland Bielsko-Biała	49 ° 49 '21.8 "  N , 19 ° 9' 54.2"  E	35	2002
Romanian People's Redemption Cross	Moldova Nisporeni	47 ° 4 '10.6 "  N , 28 ° 12' 2.7"  E	35	2011
Cross of Peace (Bald Knob Cross)	USA Alto Pass , Illinois	37 ° 33 '7 "  N , 89 ° 20' 47"  W.	33.8	1963
Catfish house cross	USA Florence , Missouri	32 ° 9 '38.9 "  N , 90 ° 7' 37.9"  W.	33.5	2015
Lake City Cross	USA Lake City , South Carolina	33 ° 53 '20.7 "  N , 79 ° 45' 19.9"  W.	33.5	2016
Millennium Cross by Wilczy Las	Poland Wilczy Las	51 ° 16 ′ 6.5 "  N , 15 ° 45 ′ 20.1"  E	32	2000
Mont Royal Cross	Canada Montreal	45 ° 30 ′ 31.9 "  N , 73 ° 35 ′ 16.6"  W.	31.4	1924
Mount Davidson Cross	USA San Francisco	37 ° 44 '18.1 "  N , 122 ° 27' 17.2"  W.	31	1934
Cross of the Piatra Fântânele monastery	Romania Bistrița	47 ° 14 ′ 23 "  N , 25 ° 0 ′ 39.8"  E	31	2010
Ballinger Cross	USA Ballinger , Texas	31 ° 43 '25.4 "  N , 99 ° 55' 56.1"  W.	30.2	1993
Cruceta del Vigía	United States of America Ponce , Puerto Rico	18 ° 1 ′ 8.6 ″  N , 66 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  W.	approx. 30	1984
Pro-Life Millennium Cross	Canada Aberdeen , Saskatchewan	52 ° 23 '22.2 "  N , 106 ° 9' 28.6"  W.	30th	2006
Jakobskreuz on the Buchensteinwand	Austria Sankt Jakob in Haus	47 ° 29 '3.6 "  N , 12 ° 34" 52.2 "  E	29.6	2014		Double cross, viewing platforms in and on the cross arms and on the top

See also

• List of the tallest sacred buildings
• List of tallest church spiers in the world
• List of high crosses in Germany

Web links

• World's Top 19 Largest Crosses , miraticio.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julia Marcher: Two faces of the Benedictines Opinions are divided on the Franco inheritance . deutschlandfunk.de, August 14, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} World's Top 19 Largest Crosses , miraticio.com, accessed February 10, 2018.
3. ↑ Shrine of Valor (Dambana ng Kagitingan) & World War II Museum, Mt.Samat, Bataan . warinasia.com, accessed February 11, 2017.
4. ↑ Evoluzione, misurazioni e valutazioni delle emissioni elettromagentiche del centro transmittente di Radio Vaticana a Santa Maria di Galeria (RM) , pages 11 and 14f. Agenzia per la protezione dell'ambiente e per i servizi tecnici, March 2004 (PDF / ZIP).
5. ↑ Elizabeth Marina: El Cristo abandonado de Chiapas . Aquínoticias, October 18, 2016.
6. ↑ Carolyn Nichols: Massive cross 'draws people' to First Baptist Central Florida . Florida Baptist Witness, Dec. 4, 2008 (PDF).
7. ↑ Sarah Crawford: Nungesser: Haughton cross brings 'wow factor' to local area . Shreveport Times, December 12, 2016.
8. ↑ Idjabra Cross
9. ^ Stanley D. Brunn: The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. Springer, 2015, page 1459; limited preview in Google Book search.
10. ↑ Africa's Largest Cross Erected in Mekelle Chom'a Hills . Ethiosports, September 26, 2017.
11. ^ The Cross . Sagemont Church Houston, accessed February 10, 2018.
12. ↑ Светна новиот крст во Аеродром (ФОТО) . Република Online, April 20, 2014 (Macedonian).
13. ^ Second Highest Cross of Europe in Artsakh . Armedia, December 5, 2017.
14. ↑ W blasku Fatimy . gosc.pl, May 13, 2013 (Polish).
15. ↑ Asian largest cross in Karachi . christiansinpakistan.com, September 4, 2017.
16. ↑ Asia's biggest cross stands tall in karachi . Daily Pakistan, August 2016.
17. ↑ Tim Craig: A 'bulletproof' cross rises in Karachi . The Washington Post, May 15, 2015.
18. ↑ Capilla de la Paz . Bajo Palabra, May 6, 2015 (Spanish).
19. ↑ Najwyższy krzyż w Polsce . nowiny24.pl, September 8, 2002.
20. ↑ "Source of power for everyday life" . main district.at, May 12, 2014.
21. ↑ pilgerkreuz.at
22. ↑ Iesenii au cea mai inalta cruce din tara . evz.ro, August 24, 2006 (Romanian).
23. ↑ تكريس صليب القبيات الأكبر ... وإضاءته . ekherelakhbar.com, October 29, 2013 (Arabic).
24. ↑ The Joseph Cross on the great Auerberg . harz.de, accessed on February 11, 2018.
25. ^ Greg Garrison: Gardendale's First Baptist Church plans $ 6 million children's building . AL.com, September 17, 2012.
26. ↑ La Cruz del Ávila . laedc.com.ve, archived October 6, 2008.
27. ↑ Konrad Dudek: Spacer pod Milenijny Krzyż na Miejskiej Górze w Limanowej . mojamalopolska.pl, September 9, 2015 (Polish).
28. ^ Catedral de Chillán . Municipalidad de Chillán, accessed February 11, 2018 (Spanish). Some private websites claim a height of 39 meters.
29. ↑ Sign of the cross: The designers who planned an 'outdoor cathedral' in 8 weeks . Independent.ie, August 19, 2018.
30. ↑ Hrobacza Łąka - informacje z sieci . hrobacza.pl, accessed February 11, 2018 (Polish).
31. ↑ Ridicarea crucii "Mântuirii Neamului" la nisporeni, Rep . Moldova . Asociatia Culturala Pro Basarabia si Bucovina, August 11 / September 1, 2011 (Romanian).
32. ↑ C. Todd Sherman: Catfish house dedicates cross . Clarion Ledger, April 3, 2015.
33. ↑ Lake City Cross - Lake City, South Carolina , SC Picture Project.
34. ↑ Wilczy Las - 32nd metrowy Krzyż Milenijny . wboleslawcu.pl, April 17, 2014.
35. ^ Jean-Christophe Laurence: Nouvel éclairage pour la croix du mont Royal . lapresse.ca, February 4, 2009.
36. ↑ Ronald W. Erdridch: Why a West Texas businessman had a 99-foot cross erected - and where you can see it . Star Telegram, April 30, 2017.
37. ↑ Cruceta del Vigia . travelponce.com, accessed February 11, 2018.
38. ^ Pilgrimage leads to Millennium Cross . Prairie Messenger, September 9, 2015.
39. ↑ The largest accessible summit cross is open . tirol.orf.at, July 28, 2014.

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