Giant Jesus Statue Completed
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Nov. 7, 2010 -- A massive statue of a crowned Jesus Christ with outstretched arms has risen in a small Polish town and a local priest claims it is now the world's tallest.
Rev. Sylwester Zawadzki, the 78-year-old priest who created the statue told the Associated Press, the statue, called "Christ the King," rises 108 feet, or 33 meters -- one meter for every year that Jesus lived. Construction workers offered different figures for the statue's size. Nonetheless the work certainly rivals Rio de Janiero's towering "Christ the Redeemer," which stands 125 feet tall.
Here, workers raise the crowned head of the Jesus statue, before placing it atop the figure's body on Nov. 6, 2010.
Photo: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski
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