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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rich Booth

Controversy behind ‘world’s largest Jesus statue’ that’s become an Armenian village tourist attraction

On the edge of a dusty construction site, 30 minutes outside Yerevan, stands what may become the world's tallest statue of Jesus Christ – although, for now, it remains in pieces.

Part unfinished monument, part accidental tourist attraction, the giant aluminium figure lies behind a corrugated iron fence in the village of Zovuni, on the outskirts of the Armenian capital, waiting for the day it might finally be lifted into place by helicopter on a nearby mountain.

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