The dome
Thirty-seven metres without internal supports.
Diego Delso โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Frank Vincentz โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Simon Burchell โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Simon Burchell โ CC BY-SA 4.0
No, but it is among the largest unsupported ones (third or fourth depending how you measure) โ and Maltese always compare it to the Pantheon it was modelled on.
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One of the largest unsupported domes in the world: the church of the Assumption at Mosta (1860) was modelled on the Roman Pantheon with a dome thirty-seven metres across โ and the townspeople built it themselves over twenty-seven years, working in shifts after their own working days, around the old church, which stayed in use until the new one closed over it. The story every Maltese knows happened on 9 April 1942: a five-hundred-kilogram German bomb pierced the dome and fell among three hundred people waiting for mass โ and did not explode. Everyone survived, and Maltese call it the Miracle of Mosta; a replica of the bomb is displayed in a side room that visitors enter. The interior is entirely circular with a marble floor, eight altars and windows in the dome pouring light down vertically. It is a working church in the centre of Mosta town, and visiting takes a ticket that includes the bomb room and the crypts.
Thirty-seven metres without internal supports.
A replica of the 1942 bomb and the story.
Rotunda Square, Mosta