Have you ever seen a skyscraper with 25 floors? If yes, then it would be easier for you to gauge the height of the 350-feet Buddha statue that the Gujarat government is going to erect at Dev Ni Mori in Shmlaji, around 150km north of Ahmadabad.
The tallest Buddha statue (503 feet) is at the Spring Temple in China. The statue in Gujarat will be the world’s second tallest Buddha sculpture and the tallest of a sitting Buddha.
Let’s get a glimpse of 10 tallest statues in India:
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Hanuman Swami:
Location – Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh
Year of construction – 2003
Height – 135 feet
Material – Concrete
The statue is located at Paritala village on NH-9 around 30km from Vijaywada
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Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche:
Location – Rewalsar Lake, Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh
Year of consecration – 2012
Height – 123 feet
Legend says that a Buddhist monk, Lama Wangdor, decided to construct the statue with the help of the followers of Padmasambhava. It took three years to build the statue.
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Thiruvalluvar’s Statue:
Location – Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
Year of inauguration – 2000
Height – 133 feet
Sculptor Dr V Ganapati Sthapati has built this giant statue of legendary Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote Tirukkural, the Tamil Sangam classic. Each foot of the 133-feet tall statue is dedicated to each of the 133 chapters in Tirukkural. The statue was hit by Tsunami in 2004.
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Murudeshwara Statue:
Location – Murudeshwara, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka
Year of construction – 1979
Height – 123 feet
The statue was built by Shivamogga’s Kashinath and his fellow sculptors under the patronage of renowned philansthropist and civil construction legend R. N. Shetty. The statue stands beside the recently built Raja Gopura temple that is over 230 fee tall.
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Hanuman Statue, Shimla:
Location – Jakhoo Hill, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Year of inauguration – 2010
Height – 108 feet
The huge statue of Hanuman is the new tourist attraction and new landmark of the famous hill station. It cost over 1.9 crore to build the statue
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Buddha Statue:
Location – Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Year of construction – 1965
Height – 107 feet
The Sakyamani Buddha statue, dedicated to the Dalai Lama, is inside the complex of Mindrolling Monastery near Rajaji National Park in Dehradun. The Mindrolling Monastery is one of the largest in India and it was set up by Khochhen Rinpoche and a small group of Tibetan monks.
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Hanuman Murti:
Location – Nandura, Buldhana district, Maharashtra
Height – 105 feet
Commuters on NH6, who have passed by Nandura near Akola, must have noticed the tall Hanuman statue. It is the second tallest Hanuman statue in India.
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Har ki Pauri:
Location – Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Height – over 100 feet
Ganges River flows by the Shiva statue. The pilgrim town of Haridwar has associated its idetity with the statue as it is the most famous landmark there.
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Chinmaya Ganadhish:
Location – Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Year of construction – 2001
Height – 85 feet
India’s tallest Ganesha statue is situated in Kolhapur. The statue can be seen from the Pune-Bangalore stretch of NH-4
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Adinath Bawangaja:
Location – Barwani, Madhya Pradesh
Time of construction – Early 12th century
Height – 84 feet
Lord Adinath is the first Tirthankar in Jain religion. This 84-feet tall statue of him is a famous Jain pilgrim spot. Bawangaja is a part of the Satpura range. No other statue this tall has been in India for so long. Besides, the green mountains in the background makes the statue one of the most beautiful sites in India.
