BIGGEST -- Wooden Building in Europe - Büyükada, Istanbul, Turkey - Superlatives on Waymarking.com

Probably the biggest/largest wooden building in Europe is located on small island called Büyükada in Istanbul (it's still its part). Name of building is "Eski Rum Yetimhanesi" (EN: Greek Orphanage). It was built as a hotel, although it never received permission from the government to operate as one, so a rich Greek family bought it and donated it to the church, which used it as an orphanage until the 1970s. Since then, it’s been empty.

The building is 101 metres long and around 24 metres high, and appears to be the largest wooden building in Europe (although that’s assuming you choose to decide that Turkey is in Europe, and not Asia… because the Todaiji temple in Japan (Wikipedia page) claims to be the biggest in the world).

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Type of documentation of superlative status: http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/08/europes-largest-wooden-building/ Location of coordinates: Building itself Web Site: [Web Link]

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