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| Christ the Savior | |
 Statue of Jesus (Mount Corcovado) |
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| Position | |
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| Coordinates | 22°57′08″S 43°12′37″W22°57′08″S 43°12′37″W |
| local | Rio de Janeiro , Brasilia |
| Federal state | Rio de Janeiro |
| The country | Brazil |
| building | |
| Artist | Albert Caquot [*] Heitor da Silva Costa [*] Paul Landowski [*] Gheorghe Leonida |
| Construction start date | 1920 |
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Cristo Redentor ( Christ the Savior ) is a monument in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), located south of the city, on Mount Corcovado (700 m), in the Tijuca forest. The monument was planned on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Brazil's declaration of independence. The project sketches were prepared by engineer Heitor Silva Costa. For financial reasons, its construction began only ten years later.
With the support of France and the Vatican , the project was completed and the statue was consecrated on October 12, 1931. The building, representative of Art Deco , has a height of 30 meters, along with the base 38 meters. The base occupies an area of 100 m 2 . The width of the statue, at the level of the arms, is 28 meters, and its mass is 1,145 tons [1] , the approximate mass of the head is 30 tons , and that of each hand is 8 tons . The head measures 3.75 m , each hand 3.20 m , the width of the tunic is 8.50 m . The span between the hands is28 meters . In the pedestal there is a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora Aparecida , where 150 people can enter and where marriages and baptisms are celebrated. [2] The plaster cast (model) as well as the sculpture were made by the French sculptor Paul Landowski .
Due to its size, this monument is one of the largest statues of Jesus Christ in the world. Only the similar statue in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba of 40.44 m of which 34.20 m for the character) [3] , the statue of Christ the King from Świebodzin in Poland ( 52.5 m / 33 m) and the statue of Christ from Vung Tàu in Vietnam ( 36 m / 32 m ) are larger.
There are currently several copies of the Christ the Savior statue in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Portugal .
Becoming famous in France as a portraitist, the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida was included by Paul Landowski in the team that started working on the giant statue in Rio de Janeiro in 1922, being commissioned to make the head of the statue of the Savior. The building material is composed of reinforced concrete, covered with a layer of mosaic . The monument is used by the Catholic Church on various anniversaries as a place of pilgrimage .
