In November 2010, the people of Świebodzin - a relatively small town about 110km west of Poznań - welcomed a new resident: a giant statue of Jesus Christ, dubbed “Christ the King.” What makes another statue of Christ notable? Well, weighing 400 tonnes and standing 33 metres tall, the new Polish Christ is purported to be the largest statue of Jesus in the world, though the claim has incited debate amongst other imposing Jesuses. Świebodzin’s Christ himself is technically shorter than Rio’s famed Christ the Redeemer statue (30m tall), but factor in his crown (3 metres) and the mound he stands on (another 16 metres) and he easily dwarfs Rio’s Redeemer.
