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The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge, with ironworking equipment. It was created as Birmingham's entry for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World's Fair) in St. Louis, Missouri. While it is the world's largest made of iron, it is also among the nation's tallest statues of any kind. [2]
The 1856 drawing of Baphomet by Éliphas Lévi served as a visual reference for the statue. Baphomet is a monumental bronze statue commissioned by the Satanic Temple, crowdfunded in 2014 and unveiled in 2015. The statue has figured in public challenges against the display of the Ten Commandments at two state capitols.
The statue was toppled on July 16, 2016 when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument; the statue fell from its pedestal and was heavily damaged. In 2017, the Demopolis city council voted 3–2 to move the damaged Confederate statue to a local museum and to install a new obelisk memorial that honors both the Union and ...
The statue is of a Baphomet, a goat-headed idol found in several instances in the history of occultism. The Satanic Temple is making headlines this week after unveiling a 1-ton, 9-foot-tall statue ...
When Arkansas installed a statue of the Ten Commandments outside the State Capitol, the Temple unveiled its own statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed figure, there, too.
Birmingham and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Baphomet is a figure incorporated across various occult and Western esoteric traditions. [3] ... The Satanic Temple transported the Baphomet statue to Little Rock, ...
Linn Park is a seven-acre (2.8 ha) urban park in the centre of Birmingham, Alabama. [1] It is overlooked by Birmingham City Hall on the west side and Jefferson County Courthouse on the east side. Formerly known as Capitol Park , Woodrow Wilson Park , and Central Park , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the park was renamed after Confederate naval officer and ...