Top 5 Biggest Churches In Africa 2013 - Africa's Biggest Churches.

TOP 5 AFRICAN CHURCHES.

Here is a list of the top 5 churches in africa according to their church membership and the sizes of their church auditoriums.

1. Winners Chapel (Nigeria).

Winners’ Chapel is a mega church founded by Bishop Oyedepo in 1981.  By the middle of 1999 the church attendance had grown to 75,000 people in a single service. The international headquarters covers about 70 acres (280,000m sq) built in a church complex that spans 7,000 acres (28,000 sq kms). Winners’ Chapel runs 10 secondary schools and 50 primary school, with the inclusion of Covenant University that was voted the best university in 2005 in Nigeria and has a capacity of 7000 students. An annual amount of $7,000,000 (Seven million dollars) is administered in scholarships for education up to first degree level to church members through the David Oyedepo Scholarship Scheme and channelled through the Satellite Fellowships where membership is validated.

2. International Central Gospel Church (Ghana).

The International Central Gospel Church – ICGC – is an Evangelical, Charismatic Christian Church. It was officially inaugurated as a church on the 26th of February 1984, in Accra, Ghana. The first meeting was held in a small classroom with an initial membership of just about twenty people. In 1988 the ICGC established a ministerial institute to train a new generation of leaders to carry out its vision. From the initial six-month certificate in ministry, the college has developed into the premier private-owned University in Ghana known as the Central University College. Again in 1988, the church instituted an educational scholarship scheme, known as Central Aid, to finance the education of selected needy students in pre-tertiary educational institutions. This scheme is now considered the largest non-governmental scholarship programme for students in pre-tertiary education in Ghana. The International Central Gospel Church is a socially conscious Christian church with upholds the philosophy of Human dignity and Excellence. It engages in promoting and staging events whose impact have reached to the depths of the Ghanaian society and brought Christ to the doorsteps of the people.

3. Kingsway International Christian Centre (UK/Nigeria).

Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) is based in London, England and was established in 1992 with 200 adults and 100 children. It currently has up to 12,000 people in attendance at the main church every Sunday. The Church was located for nine years on a 9.5-acre (38,000 m²) site in Hackney, London, close to the site of the new 2012 Olympics Village. The church is pastored by Matthew Ashimolowo. The majority of the membership is under 50 years of age and come from a cross mix of 46 nations.

4. New Life Covenant Church (Zimbabwe).

Bishop Tudor and Pastor ChiChi became the senior pastors of what was then New Life Temple in 1982.In the years since they have assembled a fast growing dynamic, energetic, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural congregation. New Life Temple became New Life Covenant Church on Sunday, 6 December 1998. 
The ensuing thirteen months to January 2000, were spent in a nomadic Sunday migration as we moved between Girls' High School, Queen Elizabeth School, the Garden Club Hall in the Harare Exhibition Park, and the ZANU (PF) conference hall
From February 2000 to December 2001, we used the auditorium at 55 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue for our Sunday and mid-week services. Having started with one Sunday morning service, we were running two services from September 2000 and then three services from April 2001. Our move to the Harare International Conference Centre came in January 2002, and we are still there on a regular basis.

5. Redeemed Christian Church Of God, RCCG (Nigeria).

The RCCG was founded by Pa Josiah Akindayomi, who came from Ondo State in the Western part of Nigeria. He was born in 1909. He grew up as an idol worshipper but he later converted to Christianity out of a yearning to know “The God who created the earth and everyone on it”. He was baptized in 1927by the Church Missionary Society (CMS). He joined the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) church in 1931 because he was not fulfilled as a Christian in the Anglican Church. He left the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) church in 1952 and started a house fellowship called, the Glory of God Fellowship at Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos. Pa Akindayomi, who was an illiterate, one day, proclaimed that he got a revelation from God about the renaming of the church the Redeemed Christian Church of God, which is now a household name in many countries. Thus in 1952, the Redeemed Christian Church of God was born. As Papa was preparing to meet his Creator, he sent for Pastor Adeboye and spent several hours sharing with him details of the covenant and the plans of the Lord for the church. Even though a year before this, the Lord had revealed to Pastor Adeboye that he would be Papa's successor, it was still too difficult for him to fully contemplate such an awesome responsibility. The above is their new auditorium which can seat one million people at a time.