WARNING & REMINDER to self: If 1 day I do visit any of these statues, make sure I only visit them with the same attitude/mindset just like how I visited the Merlion Statue in Singapore's Sentosa Island or even the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA (though I've yet been to the Statue of Liberty)... They're all merely tourist attractions, I should never ever pray to any of these statues or I'll be breaching Commandment Number 2...
Commandment Number 2:
"You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."
The statue is 39.6 metres (130 ft) tall, including its 9.5 meter (31 feet) pedestal, and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It weighs 635 tonnes (700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. It is one of the tallest of its kind in the world (The statue of Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is slightly taller). A symbol of Christianity, the statue has become an icon of Rio and Brazil. It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone, and was constructed between 1922 and 1931.
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| World Famous "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
The statue is 34.20 metres (112.2 ft) tall, on a pedestal of 6.24 metres (20.5 ft), bringing its total height to 40.44 metres (132.7 ft). The statue is slightly larger than Christ the King in Świebodzin (if the 2 metres (6.6 ft) high crown of Christ the King is not counted) and Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, making it the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world. It is also the largest statue of any kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Construction of the statue began on 12 July 1987, and was completed 20 November 1994.
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| "Cristo de la Concordia" statue on San Pedro Hill, Cochabamba, Bolivia |
Latest attraction, completed on 6 November 2010. The statue is 33 metres (108 ft) tall, the crown is 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall. It weighs 440 tonnes. It was built on a 16 metre embankment of stones and rubble. Christ the King has a height of 33 metres, symbolising a traditional belief that Jesus' age at his death was 33. The Crown of the temple is 3.5 metres in diameter and 2 m in height, and the whole is gilded. The head is 4.5 m tall and weighs 15 tons. Each hand is 6 m in length and the distance between the ends of the fingers is 24 metres. It is composed of plaster and fibreglass.
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| "Christ the King" statue in Świebodzin, Poland |
Anyway, the "Christ the Redeemer (statue)" was proposed by Catholic priest Pedro Maria Boss and the "Christ the King (statue)" project was conceived and led by Rev. Sylwester Zawadzki, a retired Polish Roman Catholic priest... (I couldn't help but wonder what's Rev. Pedro Maria Boss's & Rev. Sylwester Zawadzki's understanding from Exodus 20:4-6, I'd be really interested to hear their definition for these 3 verses...)
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