Christ the Redeemer Cross
The Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil is a cross shaped from an image of Jesus Christ with outstretched arms welcoming people to his embrace.
Christ the Redeemer Rio de Janeiro
Christ the Redeemer is a cross shaped from an image of Jesus Christ with outstretched arms welcoming people to his embrace. This 40 metre high statue stands atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Official website)
Building was completed in 1931. Designed by a Brazilian engineer, built by a Polish born French sculptor, covered in Swedish soapstone, and photographed by tourists from probably every nation in the world, a chapel lies beneath the statue for baptisms and weddings.
And here's the Lucky Seven connection: The statue weighs 700 tons, is located at the peak of the 700 metre mountain, and on 7th July 2007 (7/7/7) the statue was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
There is another Christ the Redeemer statue in South America, found high up in the Andes. Now a summer tourist attraction, at an altitude of 3,832 metres stands the Cristo Redentor de los Andes statue. It was erected in 1904 on the Argentina / Chile border to celebrate renewed peace between those two nations.
