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Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu ʁedẽˈtoʁ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
Cristo Redentor The Corcovado Rack Railway ( Portuguese : Trem do Corcovado ) is a mountain rack railway in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , from Cosme Velho to the summit of Corcovado at an elevation of 710 m (2,329 ft).
View from the 25 de Abril Bridge. The construction of the Christ the King monument was approved in a Portuguese Episcopate conference, held in Fatima on 20 April 1940, as a plea to God to release Portugal from entering World War II and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the act of consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. [4]
Heitor da Silva Costa (25 July 1873 – 21 April 1947) was a Brazilian civil engineer, designer and constructor of the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro.In 1924, he won a competition for the construction of the monumental Christ the Redeemer statue Monumento Cristo Redentor on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro organized by the Catholic Church.
Cristo Redentor (literally Christ the Redeemer in English) is a neighbourhood (bairro) in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959. The first inhabitants of this neighbourhood were Italian immigrants from Caxias do Sul.
The Christ the King statue (Portuguese: Cristo Rei) is a Catholic monument and shrine overlooking the city of Lubango in the South of Angola. It was inspired by the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), as one of only four in the world. This 30-metre-high (98 ft) white marble statue was built in 1957. [1]
Cristo-Rei in Portugal: a 28-metre-high (92 ft) monument of Christ the Redeemer; Cristo Rei of Dili, a 27-metre-high (89 ft) statue in Dili, Timor-Leste; Cerro del Cubilete in Guanajuato, Mexico: a 23-metre-high (75 ft) statue inspired by Christ the Redeemer; Cristo Rey in Ejutla, Jalisco, inspired by the Rio de Janeiro statue
Christ the Protector (Portuguese: Cristo Protetor) is a statue of Jesus Christ constructed in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. [2]The statue was started in 2019, and completed on April 22, 2022, [1] [3] with a height of 43 m (140 ft) with its pedestal, making it the world's third tallest Jesus statue [4] (after Christ Blessing and Christ the King, Świebodzin) and 5m taller than the ...