Travel to Where, My Jesus is Bigger Than Yours

HUFFINGTON POST
By Kevin Richberg

BRAZIL - The world is currently gripped in a struggle to see who has the biggest Jesus Christ. This "tourist envy" battle began in the late 1920s with this famous Art Deco Jesus featured in this postcard from The 30 Postcards Project. My prediction is that within the next two years someone, somewhere will build a larger Jesus. The tourist world's appetite for huge things will never be satiated. Build them and they will come! [link]

• The artistic and powerful Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) Statue on Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the entire city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cristo was unveiled in 1931 as the World's Largest Statue of Jesus Christ.
• Contemporary to Christ the Redeemer was Cristo del Otero, a statue in Palencia, Spain designed to be the largest in Europe (world) at the time but without the funding power of the Rio project.
• Fast forward to 1994 and you have Bolivia, Brazil's neighbor, getting in on the action. Bolivia goes for the gold by designing the Cristo de la Concordia, which becomes not only the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world but also the largest statue of any kind in South America.
• By this time in history Protugal, Vietnam, East Timor, Peru, Colombia, France and Mexico all have built Jesus statues between 25 and 30 meters tall, just shy of Cristo in Rio.
• Enter the small town of Świebodzin, Poland on the border with Germany (population ~21,000). They revealed in November of last year the World's Largest Jesus, much to the dismay of folks in Brazil.