Talk:Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

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I'll dig out some photos from last time I was there. - BozMo(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:38, 29 April 2004‎

I'm not entirely sure this church is a cathedral, as I didn't see any reference to a bishop or diocese on its web page. Also, nobody can seem to agree on exactly what world record this church breaks. - Montr&eacute;alais 20:05, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Fair point on height: I think it is the highest domed cathedral rather than highest cathedral. I have however met the bishop although his relationship to the two papal delegates in permanent residence is obscure to me - BozMo(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:28, 1 May 2004‎


 * This church's website gives its height as 158 m while Ulm Munster is 161 m and Sagrada Familia 170m (if that part is finished. Rmhermen 23:57, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

Not sure about the thirteenth apostle bit. His picture is next to others involved. These is also a popular guidebook rumour he was buried there which was false. BozMo(talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:32, 1 May 2004‎

Norte-Dame de la Paix is not the highest church in the world - see German list of the highest churches. But it is the largest (see Guiness World Records) 68.165.95.210 17:51, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

This article should be moved to its proper name of Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro or Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (or its official French derivative), as it is officially listed by the Vatican registry. It would also be easier to guard against confusion over the vast many, more notable historic churches bearing the name of Notre Dame. --James Easton 20:14, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Contradictions
- "The cost of the basilica doubled the national debt of Côte d'Ivoire", and later the article states - "The president personally financed the basilica project."... So which is it? The state paid for it or the president? You know finding these minor contradictions and inaccuracies throughout Wikipedia does far more harm to its reputation and credibility than, say, a page of obvious vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.50.21.242 (talk) 15:32, 6 April 2005 (UTC)

The comment about the debt is demonstrably untrue. This site has the debt for each year since 1975 https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/ivory-coast/national-government-debt and you can see that not only was the debt too big to have the Basilica be a major contributor, BUT, the debt didn't double. In fact, it went down. I'm going to edit the statement, which is thinly sourced by a Guardian article with no underlying data stated. Sethgodin (talk) 19:42, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

During the 34 year reign of Felix Houphouet-Boigny (1960-94) the state and the office of the president were essentially synonymous in Côte d'Ivoire. Finances in the country were largely distributed through networks of patronage with the president at the centre. In effect this meant Houphouet-Boigny treated the states funds as an extension of his own personal wealth. Stating that both the state and the president paid for the cathedral is then not a strict contradiction, because of the way the government was set up at the time. The office of the president was not considered separate from the individual who held it, which is different from typical western liberal conceptions of government offices. 03:20, 5 October 2010 (UTC) John —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.150.196.181 (talk)

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Is this worth mentioning
According to Demographics of Côte d'Ivoire, only a minority (20-30%) of Côte d'Ivoire's population are Christians, and Islam is probably the most common religion followed by indigenous beliefs. --Nick Dowling 08:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

No. You might mention other religious structures put up by H-B, including the big mosque in town. 2A00:23EE:1410:6863:2195:9808:BF25:2501 (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Major basilica?
I thought that only the four basilicas in Rome (St. John Lateran, St. Peter's Basilica, St. Paul outside the Walls, and St. Mary Major are ranked as major? How come Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro is listed as major?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.191.144.135 (talk) 14:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Did nothing with Côte d'Ivoire's external debt
The artcle has these sentences: "The lavishly built basilica sits in the middle of the African bush in an impoverished city where only a minority of homes have running water and adequate sanitation. The cost of the basilica doubled the national debt of Côte d'Ivoire[citation needed], but many of the country's Roman Catholics are proud of the church." Well, in 1990, the external debt of Côte d'Ivoire was about US$10 billions.While, the price of this cathedral was about US$300 million, or about just 3% of external debt of Côte d'Ivoire when this cathedral was opened.Agre22 (talk) 15:06, 10 September 2008 (UTC)agre22

I think you might be true, but you need to show the exact sources so we can change the text.85.240.20.146 (talk) 01:55, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

We can change the text. The $8.8 billion dollar figure is widel reported and could be tracked down, I think, to a good source reasonably easily. It comes, as far as I know, from the CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are pretty authoritative. It is important that we correct this. The error is becoming more and more widespread on the Web, and the source of the error is here.

Poihths (talk) 22:23, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Largest Church??
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica#cite_note-6 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_churches_in_the_world#Claims.--Theosony (talk) 22:40, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Omission
>Apart from the basilica are two identical buildings each serving as rectory and private papal villa, respectively.

There is another building on the premises. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.81.0 (talk) 21:56, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 20 September 2015

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain t/ c 16:08, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Yamoussoukro) → Basilica of Our Lady of Peace – There is no need for parenthetical disambiguation, as there is no other article titled "Basilica of Our Lady of Peace" (see: User:Born2cycle/Unnecessary disambiguation).  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:14, 20 September 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. EdJohnston (talk) 14:37, 28 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose the cathedral in Hawaii is a basilica -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 05:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Support per nom and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC/WP:TWODABS. This is the only article of this title and the most notable of basilicas with similar names.  A hatnote is already in place to redirect an wayward searchers for Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Honolulu).  —  AjaxSmack   14:44, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no disambiguation page, 2DAB does not apply. Our Lady of Peace (disambiguation) clearly has many more than two elements, so if you were thinking about that page, then it also isn't a 2DAB -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 04:36, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just to be clear, I was not referring to the Our Lady of Peace (disambiguation) page. What I meant was that there is no need for a "Basilica of Our Lady of Peace" dab page.  That title already directs to the Yamoussoukro article.  And since it does, there's no need for the parenthetical disambiguator. —  AjaxSmack   00:50, 30 September 2015 (UTC)


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