Friday, November 12, 2010

Poland unveils world’s tallest Jesus

Workers have completed construction of the world’s tallest statue of Jesus in Swiebodzin, Poland.

The statue is three metres higher than the Christ figure towering over Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Channel News Asia reports.

Measuring 36 metres in height, the Christ of Swiebodzin weighs in at an estimated 440 tonnes.

Like the robed Christ figures in Concordia, Bolivia, and in Rio de Janeiro, the statue of Swiebodzin is entirely white but the Polish Christ is distinguished by a three-metre-high golden crown.

“It is my life’s work…. He will be the greatest preacher of the faith. Europe needs preachers like Christ,” local Catholic priest Father Sylwester Zawadzki, who launched the project to build the tallest Christ figure in the world five years ago, told AFP.

SIC: CTH/ASIA