– The idea behind the statue was first proposed in the mid 1850's when a Catholic Priest by the name of Pedro Maria Boss requested the finance to build a religious monument in the city RIO DE JANEIRO — After years of Brazilians being battered by revelations of bribery and corruption, Rio de Janeiro's huge Christ the Redeemer statue isChrist the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the engineer Heitor da Silva Costa Brazil in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot The statue weighs 635 tonnes (625 long, 700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in
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