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Christ the Redeemer was built using reinforced concrete and has an outer shell of 6 million soapstone tiles. It’s believed that the workers who made these tiles occasionally wrote notes on the back, meaning this iconic landmark is full of hidden messages.  Construction of the statue took 9 years. Beginning in 1922, it was finally finished in 1931 at a cost of $250,000 US.

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The Christ the Redeemer that everyone loves and knows today is actually very different from its original design. The initial plan was a large Christ with a globe in one hand and a cross in the other. Although the project organisers originally accepted the design, it later changed to the statue of today, with the arms spread out wide.

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Cristo Redentor is the local name for Rio's statue of Jesus Christ, although English-speakers call it the Christ Redeemer statue or Christ, the Redeemer. In Christian theology, Jesus is sometimes referred to by the title Redeemer. This refers to the salvation he accomplished, and is based on the metaphor of redemption, or "buying back".

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The Catholic Church in Brazil donated money that completely funded the Christ the Redeemer.

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The concept of Christ the Redeemer was originally proposed by Princess Isabel in 1888. Rather than agreeing to a monument constructed atop Corcovado in her honour for freeing the slaves, the princess asked that an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ to be erected, declaring Him to be the True Redeemer of Mankind.The project suffered oppositions to be adapted to the design of the artist Carlos Oswald. The image of Jesus with his arms outstretched represents the shape of a cross.

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It is a weather hazard

The fact that the statue stands on top of a large mountain makes it prone to lightning strikes, and it gets hit several times a year. In 2008, an enormous thunderstorm damaged the head, eyebrows, and fingers. Later, in 2014, lightning hit and broke one of Christ’s fingers.