Mr. Graham died at his mountain home in Montreat, N.C., on Feb. 21. His body was carried in a motorcade down the mountain and 130 miles east to Charlotte, as thousands waved farewell from overpasses along the interstate.

The funeral on Friday, under a 28,000-square-foot tent that shuddered in a stiff wind, drew other political dignitaries besides the president and vice president, including Ben Carson, the housing secretary, the former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and his predecessor, Pat McCrory.

Some attendees remarked that it was an unprecedented gathering of evangelical luminaries. They included the megachurch leaders Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and A.R. Bernard, the best-selling author and speaker Beth Moore, the radio and television host David Jeremiah, and the Rev. Jim Bakker, who has returned to television ministry after a corruption scandal that sent him to prison.

The evangelical movement is now far more divided than it was under Mr. Graham, mostly because of politics. One wing makes no apology for having linked the evangelical church so closely with the Republican Party and President Trump. Another wing sees it as undermining the Gospel message.

The Rev. Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, said before the service started: “My hope is that this funeral will remind us to put the evangelism back in evangelical.”

Franklin Graham, Mr. Graham’s eldest son and designated heir of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, did not veer into politics, though he has served as a frequent champion of Mr. Trump in the media. But he did include the kind of explicit, exclusivist claim of Christian faith that he has consistently used in his public appearances, including presidential inaugurations, when he insisted on giving his prayer “in the name of Jesus.”