minor basilica
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title given to some Roman Catholic churches
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Catholic church building
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
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- Has parts of class
- tintinnabulum
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- conferred by
- Pope
- Commons category
- Minor basilicas
- different from
- basilica
- next higher rank
- major basilica
- topic's main category
- Category:Minor basilicas
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Encyclopedic overview
Floorplan of San Lorenzo in Damaso, a basilica in Rome. It is built in the basilica style: a rectangular building with a nave flanked by longitudinal aisles.
Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the pope. Basilicas are distinguished for ceremonial purposes from other churches. The building need not be a basilica in the architectural sense (a rectangular building with a central nave flanked by two or more longitudinal aisles). Basilicas are either major basilicas, of which there are four, all in the Diocese of Rome, or minor basilicas, of which there were 1,924 worldwide as of 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “minor basilica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.