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Do not fill this in! == By region == === Africa === [[File: Glory dome building, Abuja (cropped).jpg|thumb|right| [[The Glory Dome]], affiliated with Dunamis International Gospel Center, with 100,000 seats, in [[Abuja]], Nigeria]] Megachurches are found in many countries of [[Sub-Saharan]] Africa, including [[Tanzania]], Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.<ref name=ukah>{{cite book | last=Ukah | first=Asonzeh | title= Handbook of Megachurches| series= Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 19 | chapter=Chapter 15: Sacred Surplus and Pentecostal Too-Muchness: The Salvation Economy of African Megachurches | publisher= Brill |isbn= 9789004412927| date= 2020 | pages= 323–344 | doi= 10.1163/9789004412927_017 | s2cid= 213645909 }}</ref> The largest church auditorium, [[The Glory Dome]], was inaugurated in 2018 with 100,000 seats, in [[Abuja]], Nigeria.<ref>[https://www.charismanews.com/world/74340-world-s-largest-church-auditorium-dedicated-in-nigeria Taylor Berglund (2018) World's Largest Church Auditorium Dedicated in Nigeria, charismanews.com]</ref>[[File:DC Building Los Angeles.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Dream Center]] Headquarters in [[Los Angeles]]]] [[File:Auto de Páscoa - IgrejaDaCidade (crop).jpg |thumb|right| Show on the life of [[Jesus Christ]] at [[Igreja da Cidade]], affiliated to the [[Brazilian Baptist Convention]], in [[São José dos Campos]] 2017]] === United States === In 2010, the Hartford Institute's database listed more than 1,300 [[List of megachurches in the United States|megachurches in the United States]]. About 50 churches on the list had average attendance exceeding 10,000, and one had 47,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/database.html |title=Hartford Institute for Religion Research, database of Megachurches |publisher=Hirr.HartSem.edu |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref> On one weekend in November 2015, around one in ten Protestant churchgoers in the U.S.—about 5 million people—attended service in a megachurch.<ref>{{Cite web | title = The megachurch boom rolls on, but big concerns are rising too|url = http://www.religionnews.com/2015/12/02/megachurch-evangelical-christians/ | publisher = Religion News Service | access-date = 1 February 2016|date = 2 December 2015}}</ref> Some 3,000 individual [[Catholic Church]] parishes have 2,000 or more attendants for an average Sunday Mass, but they are not called megachurches as that is a Protestant term.<ref name="hartford">{{cite web |url=http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html |title=Megachurch Definition |publisher=Hartford Institute for Religion Research |access-date=6 February 2010 |url-status = live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514173618/http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html |archive-date=May 14, 2016 }}</ref> In the United States, the phenomenon has more than quadrupled in the two decades to 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=tflynn_26_5 |title=Redirect |publisher=www.SecularHumanism.org |access-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619065320/http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=tflynn_26_5}}</ref> === Asia === In 2007, five of the ten largest Protestant churches were in South Korea.<ref name="economistcome">{{cite news |title=O come all ye faithful |url=http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10015239&CFID=25385374 |publisher=Special Report on Religion and Public Life by The Economist |page=6 |date=3 November 2007 |access-date=5 November 2007 }}</ref> In 2007, the largest megachurch in the world by attendance was South Korea's [[Yoido Full Gospel Church]], an [[Assemblies of God]] (Pentecostal) church, with more than 830,000 members.<ref name="economistcome" /><ref>{{Cite web | date=26 June 2009 | url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/26/americas-biggest-megachurches-business-megachurches_slide_2.html | title=In Pictures: America's 10 Biggest Megachurches | publisher=Forbes }}</ref> === Australia === Australian scholar Sam Hey wrote in 2011 that "almost all megachurch developments are [[Pentecostalism in Australia|Pentecostal]], or [[charismatic church|charismatic]] and neo-Pentecostal offshoots".<ref name=hey2011>{{cite thesis | last=Hey | first=Sam | title=God in the Suburbs and Beyond: The Emergence of an Australian Megachurch and Denomination | publisher= Griffith University | date=2011| type=PhD| doi=10.25904/1912/3059 | url=https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/365629 | access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref> One of the first megachurches in Australia was the [[Christian Outreach Centre]] (COC),<ref name=hey2011/> now the International Network of Churches.<ref name=incabout>{{cite web | title=About | website=International Network of Churches | url=https://www.inc.org.au/about/ | access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref><ref name=hillsongleaves/> [[Hillsong Church]] was founded in 1983 in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], out of two [[Christian Life Centre]] churches and has since planted churches all around Australia and the world. <ref> Sam Hey, ''Megachurches: Origins, Ministry, and Prospects'', Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2013, p. 66-67, 265-266</ref> Another significant Australian international Pentecostal network is the [[C3 Church Global|C3 Global Network]], founded in 1980.<ref name=hillsongleaves>{{cite web|url=https://www.eternitynews.com.au/australia/hillsong-becomes-a-denomination/ |website= [[Eternity News]]|title=Hillsong becomes a denomination|date=19 September 2018}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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