extraordinary World's Tallest Jesus Statue : world trend newsAround 15,000 pilgrims Christian / Catholic and tourists Sunday (21/11/2010) gathered in the city Swiebodzin in western Poland in an inauguration of a statue of Jesus in the world.
33 meters high statue (contemporary of Jesus) which is represented as a 33-year journey of Jesus to live in this world directly into the new icon Polish state.
Live broadcast which aired on Polish television showed religious procession attended by thousands of Catholics are flocking carrying flags, placards and banners betuliskan Christ the King of the Universe, as the name of the statue.
"This monument is a tangible manifestation of our faith in Christ," said Bishop Stefan Regmunt who blessed the statue in a ceremony led by Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz.
The statue is the work of a former Roman Catholic priest, Sylwester Zawadzki and declared three meters higher than the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, which stood at the top of the mountain, which overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Three-meter-high golden crown adorn the statue weighs 440 tons of it, symbolizing the three-year term of office of Christ on earth, so that the statue would be as high as 36 meters.
With the steps that are made as high as 16 meters, total height of the statue of Christ the King of the Universe, about 52 meters. While the total height of the statue of Jesus in Rio is about 38 meters
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