List of statues by height

The following is a list of statues by height.

Existing

Over 40 meters

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
Spring Temple Buddha	Buddha - Vairocana Buddha	Lushan, Henan	China	&10000000000000128000000128 m (420 ft)	It includes a 22 m (72 ft) lotus throne. Placed on a 25 m (82 ft) pedestal/building. 153 m (502 ft) total monument height.	2002	33.775150°N 112.451016°E / 33.775150; 112.451016 (Spring Temple Buddha (Lushan, China))
Laykyun Setkyar	Buddha — Standing Buddha	Monywa, Sagaing Division	Myanmar	&10000000000000116000000116 m (381 ft)	Stands on a 13.5 m (44 ft) throne. 130 m (427 ft) total monument height.	2008	22.0803°N 95.2893°E / 22.0803; 95.2893 (Laykyun Setkyar (Khatakan Taung, Myanmar))
Ushiku Daibutsu	Buddha - Amitabha Buddha	Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture	Japan	&10000000000000110000000110 m (360 ft)	Includes the 10 m (33 ft) lotus throne. 10 m (33 ft) pedestal/building. 120 m (394 ft) total monument height.	1995	35.982716°N 140.220287°E / 35.982716; 140.220287 (Ushiku Daibutsu (Ushiku, Ibaraki, Japan))
Nanshan Haishang Guanyin	Guanyin	Sanya, Hainan	China	&10000000000000108000000108 m (354 ft)		2005	18.292683°N 109.208736°E / 18.292683; 109.208736 (Guanyin Statue of Hainan (China))
Emperors Yan and Huang	Yan and Huang, Emperors of China	Zhengzhou, Henan	China	&10000000000000106000000106 m (348 ft)		2007	34.957222°N 113.512373°E / 34.957222; 113.512373 (Emperors Yan and Huang)
Sendai Daikannon	Kannon	Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture	Japan	&10000000000000100000000100 m (330 ft)		1991	38.300466°N 140.823559°E / 38.300466; 140.823559 (Sendai Daikannon)
Qianshou Qianyan Guanyin of Weishan	Guanyin	Weishan, Changsha, Hunan province	China	&1000000000000009900000099 m (325 ft)	Gilded bronze statue.	2009
Peter the Great Statue	Peter I of Russia	Moscow	Russia	&1000000000000009600000096 m (315 ft)		1997	55.738606°N 37.60824°E / 55.738606; 37.60824 (Peter the Great Statue (Moscow, Russia))
Great Buddha of Thailand	Buddha - Sakayamuni	Ang Thong	Thailand	&1000000000000009200000092 m (302 ft)		2008	14°35′35.60″N 100°22′40.02″E
Grand Buddha at Ling Shan	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Wuxi, Jiangsu Province	China	&1000000000000008800000088 m (289 ft)		1996	31°25′55″N 120°5′29″E
Dai Kannon of Kita no Miyako park	Kannon - Byakue Kannon	Ashibetsu, Hokkaidō	Japan	&1000000000000008800000088 m (289 ft)		1989	43°31′41.44″N 142°11′53.14″E
Rodina-Mat' Zovyot! (The Motherland Calls)	Mother Russia (Soviet Union)	Mamayev Kurgan; Volgograd	Russia	&1000000000000008500000085 m (279 ft)		1967	48°44′32.5″N 44°32′13″E
Awaji Kannon	Kannon	Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture	Japan	&1000000000000008000000080 m (260 ft)	Stands on a 20 m pedestal/building. 100 m (328 ft) total height		34.502949°N 134.976676°E / 34.502949; 134.976676
Kaga Kannon	Kannon	Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture	Japan	&1000000000000007300000073 m (240 ft)		1987	36.325706°N 136.348851°E / 36.325706; 136.348851
Great Standing Maitreya Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Emei Township, Hsinchu County	Taiwan, ROC	&1000000000000007200000072 m (236 ft)			24.681045°N 120.985651°E / 24.681045; 120.985651
Leshan Giant Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Leshan	China	&1000000000000007100000071 m (233 ft)	Construction started in 713.	803	29.547222°N 103.769167°E / 29.547222; 103.769167
Mother Motherland	Mother Russia (Soviet Union)	Kiev	Ukraine	&1000000000000006200000062 m (203 ft)	Stands on a 40 m pedestal. 102 m (335 ft) total monument height	1981	50.426497°N 30.563171°E / 50.426497; 30.563171
Guze Jibo Daikannon of the Narita-san temple	Kannon - Jibo Kannon	Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture	Japan	&1000000000000006200000062 m (203 ft)		1983	33.285445°N 130.534852°E / 33.285445; 130.534852
Guanyin of Mount Xiqiao	Guanyin	Nanhai district, Foshan, Guangdong	China	&1000000000000006200000062 m (203 ft)	Stands on a 15 m pedestal. 77 m (252 ft) total height.		22.933101°N 112.971725°E / 22.933101; 112.971725
Guan Yu of Yuncheng	Guan Yu	Yuncheng, Shanxi	China	&1000000000000006100000061 m (200 ft)	Stands on a 19 m pedestal. 80 m (262 ft) total height.	2010
Aizu Jibo Dai-Kannon	Kannon - Jibo Kannon	Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima	Japan	&1000000000000005700000057 m (187 ft)		1987	37.550906°N 139.951229°E / 37.550906; 139.951229
Tokyo Wan Kannon	Kannon	Futtsu, Chiba	Japan	&1000000000000005600000056 m (184 ft)	Commemorates the World War II dead	1961	35.263544°N 139.862437°E / 35.263544; 139.862437
Usami Dai-Kannon	Kannon	Izu Peninsula, Itō, Shizuoka	Japan	&1000000000000005000000050 m (160 ft)	The largest sitting Kannon in Japan	1982
Sodoshima Dai-Kannon	Kannon	Shōdoshima, Shōzu District, Kagawa	Japan	&1000000000000005000000050 m (160 ft)	A tooth of the historical Buddha is said to be enshrined inside of it	1994	34.304285°N 134.124733°E / 34.304285; 134.124733 (Sodoshima Kannon (Shōdoshima, Japan))
African Renaissance Monument	People of Africa	Dakar	Senegal	&1000000000000004900000049 m (161 ft)		2010
Buddha in Aluthgama	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Aluthgama	Sri Lanka	&1000000000000004879999948.8 m (160 ft)	The tallest Buddha statue in South Asia	2007	6.4490°N 80.0001°E / 6.4490; 80.0001
Dai Kannon of Kamaishi	Kannon - Gyoran Kannon	Kamaishi, Iwate	Japan	&1000000000000004850000048.5 m (159 ft)	Symbolizes maritime safety and good fishing	1970	39.256532°N 141.900895°E / 39.256532; 141.900895
Ten Directions Samantabhadra Bodhisattva	Buddha - Samantabhadra	Mount Emei, Sichuan province	China	&1000000000000004800000048 m (157 ft)			29.52567°N 103.336802°E / 29.52567; 103.336802
Virgen de la Paz (Virgin of Peace)	Mary	Trujillo, Trujillo	Venezuela	&1000000000000004670000046.7 m (153 ft)	Work of the sculptor, Manuel de la Fuente. Tallest sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the world.	1983	9°20′52″N 70°27′46″W
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)	Lady Liberty	Liberty Island, New York	United States	&1000000000000004600000046 m (151 ft)	Stands upon a 47 m pedestal. 93 m (305 ft) total monument height.	1886	40.6892°N 74.0445°W / 40.6892; -74.0445
Phuket Big Buddha	Buddha - Sakayamuni	Phuket	Thailand	&1000000000000004500000045 m (148 ft)		2008	7.82784°N 98.313727°E / 7.82784; 98.313727 (Phuket Big Buddha (Phuket, Thailand))
Kailashnath Mahadev	Shiva	Kathmandu	Nepal	&1000000000000004350000043.5 m (143 ft)	The tallest Shiva statue in the world.	2010
Lord Murugan Statue	Murugan	Batu Caves, Gombak	Malaysia	&1000000000000004270000042.7 m (140 ft)		2006	3.237483°N 101.683976°E / 3.237483; 101.683976
Santa Rita de Cássia	Rita of Cascia	Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte	Brazil	&1000000000000004200000042 m (138 ft)	Stands over a 6 m pedestal and wears a 8 m crown. 56 m (183.7 ft) total monument height.	2010
Grand Byakue Kannon	Kannon	Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture	Japan	&1000000000000004179999941.8 m (137 ft)		1936	36.311105°N 138.980677°E / 36.311105; 138.980677
Veera Abhaya Anjaneya Hanuman Swami	Hanuman	Paritala, Andhra Pradesh	India	&1000000000000004100000041 m (135 ft)	World's tallest Hanuman	2003	17.229682°N 82.12263°E / 17.229682; 82.12263 (Anjaneya Hanuman Swami (Paritala, India))
Guanyin of Lianhuashan	Guanyin	Lianhuashan, Guangzhou, Guangdong	China	&1000000000000004079999940.8 m (134 ft)	While the statue was completed in 1994. The gold plating was refinished in 2000	1994	22°59′27.33″N 113°30′1.49″E

Up to 40 meters

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
José María Morelos statue	José María Morelos	Janitzio island, Michoacán	Mexico	40 m (132 ft)	Made of pink stone	1934	19.573611°N 101.651944°W / 19.573611; -101.651944
Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue	Genghis Khan	Tsonjin Boldog, Tuv Province	Mongolia	40 m (132 ft)		2007	47.807927°N 107.536899°E / 47.807927; 107.536899 (Genghis Khan equestrian statue (Mongolia))
Standing Amitabha Buddha of Fo Guang Shan	Buddha Amitabha	Kaohsiung	Taiwan, ROC	40 m (132 ft)			22.749050°N 120.445900°E / 22.749050; 120.445900 (Fo Guang Shan Buddha)
Atatürk Mask	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	Buca in the Izmir province	Turkey	40 m (132 ft)	Work of the sculptor Harun Atalayman	2009	38.406046°N 27.145991°E / 38.406046; 27.145991 (Atatürk Mask (Buca, Turkey))
Hongguang Shan Giant Buddha	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Urumqi, Xinjiang	China	38.8 m (127 ft)			43.881145°N 87.613478°E / 43.881145; 87.613478 (Hongguang Shan Dafo(Urumqi, China))
Laozi of Laojunshan Mountain	Laozi	Luanchuan County, Luoyang, Henan province	China	38 m (124.5 ft)	Gilded bronze statue.	2010
Statue of Padmasambhava in Rewalsar	Guru Rinpoche	Rewalsar, Himachal Pradesh	India	37.5 m (123 ft)
Shiva of Murudeshwara	Shiva	Murudeshwara, district of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka	India	37 m (122 ft)		2006	14.093645°N 74.483689°E / 14.093645; 74.483689
Rong Xian Buddha	Buddha	Rong Xian, Sichuan province	China	37 m (121 ft)
The Merlion of Sentosa	A merlion	Sentosa	Singapore	37 m (121 ft)		1996	1.2535°N 103.818794°E / 1.2535; 103.818794
Christ the King	Jesus	Świebodzin	Poland	36 m (120 ft). It includes a 3 m tall metal crown	Stands on top of a 16 m stone bank. 52 m total monument height. The tallest Christ statue in the world. (2011)	2010	52.236667°N 15.546389°E / 52.236667; 15.546389
Guanyin of Chongyuan Temple	Guanyin	Suzhou, Jiangsu province	China	36 m (118 ft)	88-ton indoor statue made of gilded bronze.
Statue of Padmasambhava in Namchi	Guru Rinpoche	Namchi, Sikkim	India	36 m (118 ft)			27.179514°N 88.380021°E / 27.179514; 88.380021
Alyosha monument	World War II Russian soldier	Murmansk	Russia	35.5 m (116.5 ft)	Stands upon a 7 m pedestal. 42,5 m (140 ft) total monument height		68.992902°N 33.071208°E / 68.992902; 33.071208 (Alyosha Monument (Murmansk, Russia))
Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara of Tazawako	Avalokitesvara	Tazawako, Akita prefecture	Japan	35 m (115 ft)			39.739192°N 140.723013°E / 39.739192; 140.723013
Birth of the New Man	Christopher Columbus	Sevilla	Spain	35 m (115 ft)		1995	37.427575°N 5.992813°W / 37.427575; -5.992813
Cristo de la Concordia	Jesus	Cochabamba	Bolivia	34.2 m (112 ft)	Stands upon a 6.2 m pedestal. 40.4 m (132.5 ft) total monument height.	1994	17.384522°S 66.13452°W / -17.384522; -66.13452
Tian Tan Buddha	Buddha - Gautama	Ngong Ping, Lantau Island	Hong Kong	34 m (112 ft)		1993	22.253889°N 113.904722°E / 22.253889; 113.904722
Notre-Dame du Sacré-Coeur (Our Lady of the Sacred Heart)	Mary	Le Mas-Rillier in Miribel, Ain	France	33 m (108 ft)	Over a 20 m building/pedestal. 53 m (174 ft) total height.	1941	45.828919°N 4.950349°E / 45.828919; 4.950349
Golden Maitreya Buddha of Beopjusa	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Naesongni-myeon, Chungcheongbuk-do province	South Korea	33 m (108 ft)
Laozi statue in Mount Mao	Laozi	near Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province	China	33 m (108 ft)			31°47′48.38″N 119°18′39.77″E
Mangal Mahadev	Shiva	Ganga Talao lake	Mauritius	33 m (108 ft)		2007	20.4164°S 57.4924°E / -20.4164; 57.4924 (Mangal Mahadev)
Hanuman Murti in Shimla	Hanuman	Shimla, Himachal Pradesh	India	33 m (108 ft)	Located at 8,500 ft(2,591 mt) above sea level	2010
Mindroling Monastery Buddha statue	Buddha	Dehradun, Uttarakhand state	India	32.6 m (107 ft)
Standing Buddha in the Wat Intharawihan	Buddha	Bangkok	Thailand	32.5 m (106 ft)
Hanuman in Nandura	Hanuman	Maharashtra	India	32 m (105 ft)
Statue of Mao in Juzizhou	Mao Zedong	Yuelu District, Changsha	China	32 m (105 ft)		2009
Bhaisajyaguru of the Nihon-ji Temple	Buddha - Bhaisajyaguru	Kyonan, Awa District, Chiba	Japan	31 m (102 ft)	Largest pre-modern Japan sculpture	1790 (approximate date)	35.157732°N 139.834757°E / 35.157732; 139.834757 (Bhaisajyaguru of the Nihon-Ji Temple (Kyonan, Awa District, Japan))
Jalesveva Jayamahe	Navy Officer	Surabaya	Indonesia	30.6 m	Standing 30 meters concrete building.Total height 60.6 m	1996	7°11′46.74″S 112°44′23.16″E
Shiva of the Har-ki-Pauri	Shiva	Haridwar, Uttarakhand	India	30.5 m (100 ft)
São Francisco de Canindé	Francis of Assisi	Canindé, Ceará	Brazil	30.5 m (100 ft)		2005	4.367486°S 39.305166°W / -4.367486; -39.305166

Up to 30 meters

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
Christ Blessing (Kristus kase Berkat)	Jesus	Manado	Indonesia	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 20 m pedestal. 50 m (158.3 ft) total monument height	2007
Cristo Resucitado (Christ Resurrected)	Jesus	Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico State	Mexico	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 10 m tall pedestal. 40 m (132 ft) total height.		19.562014°N 99.184463°W / 19.562014; -99.184463
Virgen de El Panecillo (Virgin in The Panecillo)	Woman of the Apocalypse	Quito	Ecuador	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 11 m pedestal. 41 m (134 ft) total	1976	0°13′43″S 78°31′7″W
Cristo Redentor do Corcovado (Christ the Redeemer)	Jesus	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	30 m (98.5 ft)	Stands on a 9.5 m pedestal. 39.6 m (130 ft) total monument height	1931	22.951667°S 43.210833°W / -22.951667; -43.210833
Bronze Guan Yin of Kek Lok Si Temple	Guanyin	Air Itam, Penang island	Malaysia	30 m (98.5 ft)	It's sheltered inside a 60.9m tall pavilion, the tallest in the world	1999	5°23′52″N 100°16′21″E
Cristo del Otero	Jesus	Palencia	Spain	30 m (98.5 ft)		1931	42.02789°N -4.52932°E / 42.02789; -4.52932 (Cristo del Otero (Palencia, Spain))
Thiruvalluvar Statue	Tiruvalluvar	Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu	India	29 m (95 ft)	Stands on a 11.5-m pedestal. 40.5 m (133 ft) total monument height	2000	8.0777°N 77.5539°E / 8.0777; 77.5539 (Thiruvalluvar Statue (Kanyakumari, India))
Erawan Museum	Airavata	Samut Prakan	Thailand	28.9 m (95 ft)	Stands over a 15 m tall building. 43.8 m (144 ft) total monument height		13.628231°N 100.588991°E / 13.628231; 100.588991 (Erawan Museum (Samut Prakan, Thailand))
White marble Guan Yin of Yinxian	Guanyin	Yinxian, Zhejiang	China	29 m (95 ft)			22.978158°N 114.018454°E / 22.978158; 114.018454 (White marble Guan Yin (Yinxian, China))
Monumental Virgen de Guadalupe	Mary	Xicotepec de Juarez, Puebla	Mexico	28 m (92 ft)		2008	20°17′10″N 97°57′14″W
Cristo-Rei (Christ the King)	Jesus	Almada	Portugal	28 m (92 ft)	Stands on a 82 m pedestal. 103 m (338 ft) total	1959	38°40′43″N 9°10′17″W
Christ of Vung Tau (Tượng Chúa Kitô Vua)	Jesus	Vung Tau, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province	Vietnam	28 m (92 ft)	Stands on a 10 m platform. 38 m (126.5 ft) total monument height		10.326303°N 107.084641°E / 10.326303; 107.084641 (Christ of Vung Tau (Vung Tau, Vietnam))
Qianshou Guanyin of Donglin Temple	Guanyin	Jinshan District, Shanghai	China	27 m (90 ft)	Indoor statue. It stands over a 2 m lotus base. 29 m total height	2007	30.896553°N 121.160639°E / 30.896553; 121.160639 (Qianshou Guanyin (Shanghai, China))
Lenin statue	Vladimir Lenin	Volgograd	Russia	27 m (88.6 ft)	Stands on a 30 m pedestal. The tallest Lenin statue in the world.	1973	48°31′39″N 44°33′31″E
Bingling Temple Maitreya Buddha	Buddha - Maitreya	Jishi Hill, near Lanzhou, Gansu province	China	27 m (88.6 ft)	Its cover has fallen off, possibly the Buddha was made of straw and stucco over an inner wooden frame	420 (approximated date)	35°52′06″N 103°10′03″E
Tochigi Heiwa-Kannon	Kannon's embodiment as the goddess of Peace	Near Utsunomiya; Tochigi Prefecture	Japan	27 m (88.6 ft)	Work of sculptor Asajiro Hida	1954	36.595996°N 139.8196°E / 36.595996; 139.8196 (Tochigi Kannon (Ooya Machi, Japan))
Cristo Rei of Dili (Christ the King)	Jesus	Dili	East Timor	27 m (88.6 ft)	Gift from the Indonesian government to the East Timorese people	1995	-8.520815°N 125.608508°E / -8.520815; 125.608508 (Cristo Rei of Dili (Dili, Timor-Leste))
Our Lady of the Rockies	Virgin Mary	Butte, Montana	United States	27 m (88.6 ft)	Design of Laurien Eugene Riehl	1985	46°0′1.7″N 112°26′46.58″W
Smiling Buddha of the Bao Jue Temple	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Taichung	Taiwan, ROC	26.8 m (88 ft)			24°9′33.96″N 120°41′18.53″E
Samadhi Buddha in Kurunegala	Buddha - Gautama Buddha	Kurunegala	Sri Lanka	26.8 m (88 ft)	Built by the Hsthisailapura Buduruwa Sangwardhana Society	2003	7°29′6.53″N 80°22′11.15″E
Hermannsdenkmal	Chief Arminius	North Rhine Westphalia	Germany	26.57 m (87 ft)	Stands at the top of a 27 m (88.5 ft) monument	1875	51°54′42″N 08°50′22″E
Carved Sitting Byakue	Kannon - Byakue Kannon	Soma city, Fukushima prefecture	Japan	26.4 m (87 ft)		1930 (construction started)
Migjid Janraisig in the Gandantegchinlen Khiid Monastery	Avalokitesvara	Ulan Bator	Mongolia	26.4 m (87 ft)		1913	47.923144°N 106.895009°E / 47.923144; 106.895009
Chinmaya Ganadhish	Ganesha	Kolhapur, Maharashtra state	India	26 m (85 ft)	Idol at Chinmaya Sandeepany Ashram	2001	16.797557°N 74.290023°E / 16.797557; 74.290023
Hanuman of Carapichaima	Hanuman	Carapichaima	Trinidad and Tobago	26 m (85 ft)
Adinath, Bawangaja	Adinath	Barwani, Madhya Pradesh	India	26 m (84 ft)	This is one of the older tallest statues in India
Christ the King of Cali	Jesus	Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca Department	Colombia	26 m (85 ft)		1953	3.436262°N -76.565083°E / 3.436262; -76.565083 (Cristo Rey de Cali)
Jesus of the Mercy	Jesus	San Juan del Sur, Rivas Department	Nicaragua	26 m (85 ft)		2009	11°15′N 85°52′W
The Broken Christ	Jesus	San José de Gracia, Aguascalientes	Mexico	25 m (82 ft)	Stands over 3 m tall pedestal. 28 m (92 ft) total height.	2006	22.139185°N -102.431594°E / 22.139185; -102.431594
Christ Roi des Houches	Jesus	Les Houches, Haute-Savoie	France	25 m (82 ft)		1934
Great Buddha in the coiled Nāga	Buddha	inside the Xieng Khuan, Vientiane	Laos	25 m (82 ft)
Ōfuna Kannon	Kannon	Kamakura, Kanagawa	Japan	25 m (82 ft)	The complex it belongs contains stones from ground zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as this temple commemorates the souls of those who died in the atomic bomb attacks	1961	35.353435°N 139.52870°E / 35.353435; 139.52870
Hanuman of the Ram Tirath temple	Hanuman	Amritsar, Punjab state	India	24.5 m (80 ft)
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman	Proletarian workers	Moscow	Russia	24 m (77 ft)	Reinstated on December 4, 2009 with a 34.5 m pedestal for a new total height of 60 m	1937	55°49′42″N 37°38′44″E
Jiangang Jing She Temple Buddha	Buddha	Tambun, Perak state	Malaysia	24 m (77 ft)
Heiwa Kannon of Funaoka Park	Kannon's embodiment as the goddess of Peace	near Funaoka station, Miyagi Prefecture	Japan	24 m (77 m)
Kannon of the Ryozen Historical Memorial	Kannon	Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture	Japan	24 m (77 ft)	Commemorates the soldiers who died in World War II	1955
The White Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda (Tượng Kim Thân Phật Tổ)	Buddha - Gautama	Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province	Vietnam	24 m (77 ft)			12.251994°N 109.18086°E / 12.251994; 109.18086
Il Sancarlone	Saint Charles Borromeo	Arona, province of Novara	Italy	23.5 m (77 ft)	Standing on a 11.5 m pedestal, 35 m (115 ft) total height	1698	45°46′12.93″N 8°32′36.10″E
Cristo Rey de los Álamos	Jesus	Tijuana, Baja California state	Mexico	23.3 m (76 ft)		1999
Mother Armenia (Mayr Hayastan)	Mother Armenia	Yerevan	Armenia	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 50 m pedestal. 73 m (240 ft) total monument height	1950	40°11′42.90″N 44°31′29.34″E
Christ the King in Saint Apollonia mount	Jesus	Pachuca, Hidalgo	Mexico	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 10 m tall pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height.	1996	20.130261°N 98.721771°W / 20.130261; -98.721771 (Christ the King in Saint Apollonia)
Torii Kannon	Kannon	Hannou city, Saitama prefecture	Japan	23 m (75 ft)	Stands on a 12 m pedestal. 35 m (115 ft) total height	1971
Cristo Rey del Tupungato	Jesus	Tupungato Valley, Mendoza Province	Argentina	23 m (75 ft)	Over a 5 m pedestal. 28 m (91.8 ft) total monument height
Christ of the Sacred Heart (Christ of the Sacred Heart)	Jesus	near Rosarito, Baja California state	Mexico	23 m (75 ft)
Vishnu statue	Vishnu	Garuda Wisnu Kencana park in the Bukit Peninsula	Indonesia	23 m (75 ft)	Original project was to construct a 140 m sculpture, currently on hiatus.
Hanuman Vatika	Hanuman	Rourkela, Orissa state	India	23 m (75 ft)
Golden Buddha in the Likir Monastery	Buddha - Maitreya Buddha	Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir	India	23 m (75 ft)	There is a small museum which houses collections of thankas, old religious and domestic costumes	1999	34.293238°N 77.215122°E / 34.293238; 77.215122 (Buddha, Likir Monastery (Ladakh, India))
Golden Driller	Oilman	Tulsa, Oklahoma	United States	23 m (75 ft)		1953	36.133638°N 95.931158°W / 36.133638; -95.931158
Golden Buddha in Ulan Bator	Buddha	Ulan Bator	Mongolia	23 m (75 ft)		2005	47.885989°N 106.91224°E / 47.885989; 106.91224 (Golden Buddha (Ulan Bator, Mongolia))
Monument to the Discoverer Faith (es:)	Christopher Columbus	Huelva	Spain	22.5 m (74 ft)	Stands on a 14.5 m pedestal. 37 m (121 ft) total monument height.	1929	37°12′44″N 6°56′26″W
Guan Yin	Guanyin	Zhongzheng Park, Taipei-Keelung metropolitan area	Taiwan, ROC	22.4 m (73 ft)			25°08′0.46″N 121°45′1.27″E
Cristo del Pacífico	Jesus	Lima, Lima Province	Peru	22 m	Stands on a 15 m pedestal, 37 m total height.	2011
Cristo de La Caldera	Jesus	Salta Province	Argentina	22 m (72 ft)	26 m (86.3 ft) total monument height	1969
Monument to the Battle of Sakarya	Turkish Soldier	Polatlı, Ankara	Turkey	22 m	Stands on a 9 m pedestal, 31 m total height.	2008
Cristo Redentore	Jesus	Maratea, province of Potenza	Italy	22 m (72 ft)		1965
Aumisme Buddha Maitreya in Mandarom	Buddha - Maitreya	Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	France	22 m (72 ft)		1981
Changhua Great Buddha	Buddha	Changhua City	Taiwan	22 m (72 ft)	Is on top of Bagua Mountain, contains a Buddhist museum inside of the Buddha.		24.0785361111°N 120.54922629°E / 24.0785361111; 120.54922629
Cristo de las Noas	Jesus	Torreón, Coahuila	Mexico	21.8 m (71.5 ft)
Dainichi Nyorai of the Seiryū-ji Temple	Buddha - Vairocana	Aomori city, Aomori prefecture	Japan	21.3 m (70 ft)		1984
Buddha of the Longxing Monastery	Buddha	near Zhengding, Hebei province	China	21.3 (70 ft)
Cosmic Christ	Jesus	Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	France	21 m (69 ft)		1987
Cristo de El Cubilete (Christ King of the Mountain of El Cubilete)	Jesus	Silao, Guanajuato	Mexico	20.5 m (67 ft)	with a 12.5 m pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height		21°0′42.5″N 101°22′8.1″W
Tribute to Courage	Sam Houston	Huntsville, Texas	United States	20.5 m (67 ft)	with a 3 m (10 ft) pedestal	1994	30°39′40″N 95°30′39″W
Dallas Zoo's giraffe statue	Giraffe	Dallas, Texas	United States	20.5 m (67 ft)		1997	32°44′38″N 96°48′52″W
Great Sphinx of Giza	Sphinx	Giza, near Cairo	Egypt	20.22 m (66 ft)		2532 BC approx.	29°58′31″N 31°08′16″E
Confucius of Zichuan	Confucius	Zichuan, Zibo City, Shandong province	China	20.09 m	A bronze statue.	2010

Up to 20 meters

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
Statue of Mao in the Chongqing Medical University	Mao Zedong	Chongqing	China	20 m	Stands over a 17.5 m pedestal. 37.4 m (122.8 ft) total monument height	2008
Kartlis Deda (Mother Georgia)	Mother Georgia	Tbilisi	Georgia	20 m (65.5 ft)		1958	41°41′17″N 44°48′17″E
Guan Yin of the South Sea	Guanyin	Putuo Shan island, Shanghai	China	20 m (65.5 ft)	upon a 13 m pedestal. 33 m (108 ft) total height		29°58′35.03″N 122°23′22.13″E
Christ Statue	Jesus	El Picacho city park; Tegucigalpa	Honduras	20 m (65.5 ft)	over a 12 m pedestal	1987
Kun Iam statue	Avalokitesvara		Macau	20 m (65.5 ft)	with a 7 m pedestal, 27 m (88 ft) final height	2002	22.185686°N 113.551880°E / 22.185686; 113.551880 (Kun Iam statue (Macau))
Mevlana Statue	Rumi	Izmir, Turkey	Turkey	20 m (65.5 ft)	With its fundament it's 25 meters high. There is a cafe below the statue. Work of the sculptor Eray Okkan	2003	38°23′30.45″N 27°10′36.43″E
Christ of Havana	Jesus	La Habana	Cuba	20 m (65.5 ft)	with a 3 m pedestal. 23 m (75 ft) total height	1958
Hanuman in New Delhi	Hanuman	New Delhi	India	20 m (65.5 ft)			28.64496°N 77.197924°E / 28.64496; 77.197924
Angel of the North	Angel	Gateshead, England	United Kingdom	20 m (65.5 ft)	Work of Antony Gormley	1998	54°54′51″N 1°35′22″W
Dream, by Jaume Plensa	Girl’s head with eyes closed	St Helens, Merseyside, England	United Kingdom	20 m (65.5 ft)		2009
Immortal Statue of Kim Il Sung	Kim Il Sung	Pyongyang	North Korea	20 m (65.5 ft)		1972	39°1′55.26″N 125°45′10.89″E
Cristo de Las Mesas	Jesus	San Ignacio, Sinaloa	Mexico	20 m (65.5 ft)		2005	23.941845°N 106.42603°W / 23.941845; -106.42603 (Cristo de "Las Mesas" (San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico))
Goddess A-Ma	Mazu	Coloane	Macau	20 m (65.5 ft)		1998	22.123810°N 113.564240°E / 22.123810; 113.564240 (A-Ma (Macau))
Christ of the Ozarks	Jesus	Eureka Springs, Arkansas	United States	20 m (65.5 ft)		1966	36°24′24.87″N 93°43′23.41″W
Shiva at Kemp Fort	Shiva	Bangalore	India	20 m (65.5 ft)
Lapu-Lapu shrine	Lapu-Lapu	Mactan Island, Cebu	Philippines	20 m (65.5 ft)
The Sanjuanote	John the Baptist	San Juan de los Morros	Venezuela	19.8 m (62.3 ft)		1935	9°54′45″N 67°21′18″W
Wat Phanan Choeng Buddha	Buddha - Sakayamuni	Ayutthaya	Thailand	19 m		1334
The Great Buddha of Shurakuen	Buddha	Shurakuen	Japan	18.8 m (61.68 ft)	Built of reinforced concrete by a businessman from Nagoya, Mr. Saikichi Yamada. It commemorates the marriage of Emperor Showa.	1927
Bavaria	Patron saint of the Bavarian homeland	Theresienwiese, Munich	Germany	18.52 m (60.9 ft)	27.44 m (90 ft) total monument height (with 8.92 m pedestal)	1850	48°7′49″N 11°32′45″E
Faro della Vittoria (Victory Lighthouse)	Winged Victory	Parco della Rimembranza (Remembrance Park of World War I), Turin	Italy	18.5 m (60.7 ft)	26.5 m (86.94 ft) total monument height (with 8 m pedestal); It's a lighthouse, working regularly, on the top of Maddalena Hill	1928
Mount Rushmore Monument	George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln	Mount Rushmore, South Dakota	United States	18.3 m (60 ft)	The height is of each one's head.	1941	43°52′44.21″N 103°27′35.37″W
Praying Hands	Praying Hands	Tulsa, Oklahoma	United States	18.2 m (60 ft)	Oral Roberts University	1980
Buddha	Buddha	Lake Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad	India	18 m (59 ft)	Found on Lake Hussain Sagar in the city of Hyderabad	1972	17.4155°N 78.475°E / 17.4155; 78.475
Hanuman	Hanuman	Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh	India	18 m (59 ft)	Found on top of the Vidya Giri Hill overlooking the Sri Sathya Sai International Hillview Stadium.	1985
Gomateswara	Bahubali	Sravanabelagola, Karnataka	India	18 m (59 ft)	It's the tallest free–standing monolithic statue in the world.	983
Monument of Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá	Mary (mother of Jesus)	Maracaibo	Venezuela	18 m (59 ft)		2004	10°38′33″N 71°36′43″W
Vulcan statue	Vulcan (mythology)	Birmingham, Alabama	United States	17.1 m (56 ft)	On Red Mountain, source of Birmingham's iron ore. World's largest cast iron statue.	1904	33°29′30.18″N 86°47′43.86″W
Jolly Green Giant	Jolly Green Giant	Blue Earth, Minnesota	United States	16.764 m (55 ft)		1979	43°39′02″N 94°5′46″W

Up to 16 meters

Statue	Depicts	Location	Country	Height	Notes	Completed	Coordinates	Photo
Monument of the Holy Mother of God	Mary	Haskovo, Haskovo Province	Bulgaria	16 m (52.48 ft)	Stands on a 17 m tall pedestal. 33 m (108.24 ft) total height.	2003	41°55′42.33″N 25°33′16.02″E
Phutthamonthon Buddha	Buddha - Sakayamuni	Phutthamonthon, Nakhon Pathom Province	Thailand	15.875 m		1981
Buddha of Linh Son Temple	Buddha	Santa Fe, Texas	United States	15.24 m	?	?
Kamay ni Hesus	Jesus Christ	Lucban, Quezon	Philippines	15.24 m (50 ft)
Divine Mercy Shrine	Christ the Divine Mercy	El Salvador, Misamis Oriental	Philippines	15.24 m (50 ft)		2008?
Birushana Nyorai Buddha of Tōdai-ji	Buddha - Vairocana	Nara city	Japan	15 m	The body of the statue was reconstructed in 1185, and the head rebuilt in 1692	752
Lenin statue	Vladimir Lenin	Dubna	Russia	15 m (49.2 ft)	Stands on a 10 m pedestal. Second tallest Lenin statue in the world	1937	56°44′0″N 37°09′0″E
Trees of Mystery Paul Bunyan	Paul Bunyan	Klamath, California	United States	14.9 m (49.2 ft)		1961	41°35′01″N 124°05′10″W
San Cristobal Hill Virgin	Mary	Santiago	Chile	14 m (46 ft)	Stands upon a 8 m pedestal. 22.30 m (73.16 ft) total monument height	1908	33°25′30.5″S 70°37′58.46″W
Great Matzu in Fujian	Mazu	Meizhou Island, Fujian	China	14 m (46 ft)			25.089486°N 119.14175°E / 25.089486; 119.14175
Liberty Statue in Budapest	Lady Liberty	Gellért Hill, Budapest	Hungary	14 m (46 ft)	Stands on a 26 m (85 ft) pedestal, total height 40 m (131 ft).	1947	47.486389°N 19.048056°E / 47.486389; 19.048056
Gifu Great Buddha	Buddha	Gifu	Japan	13.7 m (44.9 ft)		1832
Kamakura Daibutsu	Buddha - Amitabha	Kamakura, Kanagawa	Japan	13.5 m	Second largest bronze Buddha statue in Japan	1252	35°19′0.59″N 139°32′8.48″E
liberty statue of mytilene	lady liberty	mytilene	Greece	15  m (47 ft)	created by sculptor Γρηγόριος Ζευγώλης. The statue is located near the port of the city. Is the bigest statue of the Lesbos island.
Athena Parthenos	Athena	Nashville, Tennessee	United States	12.75 m (40.83 ft)	Created by sculptor Alan LeQuire. Housed in Nashville's full-scale replica of the Parthenon. The largest indoor sculpture in the Western world.	unveiled in 1990, gilded in 2002	36°08′59″N 86°48′49″W
Statue of Mao in Chengdu	Mao Zedong	Chengdu, China	China	12.26 m (40.2 ft)	Total monument height: 30 m (98.4 ft)	(1966–1976)	30°39′40.05″N 104°3′48.21″E
Borba Gato Statue	Manuel de Borba Gato	São Paulo	Brazil	12.3 m (40 ft)		1963
Warrior on a Horse statue	Unknown warrior. Many people regard it as Alexander the Great.	Skopje	Macedonia	12 m (40 ft)	Stands on top of a 10 m base. 22 m total monument height	2011	41.594604°N 21.431698°E / 41.594604; 21.431698 (Alexander The Great (Skopje, Macedonia))
Our Lady of Peace Shrine	Mary (mother of Jesus)	Pine Bluffs, Wyoming	United States	12 m (40 ft)	Stands on a base of 3 m (10 ft)	1998	41°10′56″N 104°3′13″W
Burning Man	The Man	Black Rock City, Nevada	United States	12 m (40 ft)	Base heights vary resulting in total heights from 12 m (40 ft) to 32 m (104 ft)	1989	40°46′9″N 119°13′12″W
Willow Man		Bridgwater, Somerset	United Kingdom	12 m
Vision of Peace	Native American	City Hall, St Paul, Minnesota	United States	11.6 m (38 ft)		1936
Monument Statue Aerospace (Patung Monumen Dirgantara)	Spaceman	Pancoran, Jakarta	Indonesia	11 m	Standing 27 meters tall pedestal. Total height 38 m	1965
Victory on Slavín		Bratislava, Bratislava District	Slovakia	11 m		1960	48°09′14″N 17°05′59″E
Iron Man	Iron Miner	Chisholm, Minnesota	United States	10.9 m (36 ft)	Stands on a base that raises the statue up to 26 m (85 ft) see article	1987	47.28876°N 92.53762°W / 47.28876; -92.53762 (Iron Man (Chisholm Minnesota))
Mazinger Z	Mazinger Z	El Pla de Santa Maria, Tarragona	Spain	10 m (33 ft)		1976	41°22′58″N 1°19′44″E
Christ the Redeemer	Christ the Redeemer	Klin, Námestovo District	Slovakia	9.5 m		2008	49°27′12″N 19°28′59″E
Statue of Mary	Mary	Rome, Region of Lazio	Italy	9.5 m (30 ft)		2010
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial	Martin Luther King Jr.	Washington, District of Columbia	United States	9.5 m (30 ft)		2011
Kuan Yin statue	Kuan Yin	Seremban, Negeri Sembilan	Malaysia	9.1 m		2011
Muse of Missouri		Kansas City, Missouri	United States	9.1 m		1961	39°06′14″N 94°34′59″W
Jan Žižka Statue	Jan Žižka on horse	Praha, Praha District	Czech	9 m		1950	50°05′18″N 14°26′56″E
Fisher Girl Statue		near Zhuhai, Province of Guangdong	China	8.7 m (28.5 ft)
El Cristo Redentor	Christ the Redeemer	La Cumbre Pass	Argentina/Chile	8 m (26.3 ft)		1904
Map the Miner		Kapunda, South Australia	Australia	7 m (23 ft)		2007
Standing Buddha in Gal Vihara	Buddha	Polonnaruwa, North Central Province	Sri Lanka	7 m (23 ft)
Statue of Avalokitesvara in Xiangguo Temple	Avalokitesvara	Kaifeng, Province of Henan	China	7 m (23 ft)
Statue of Shirdi Sai in Nemli	Shirdi Sai	Nemli, Andhra Pradesh	India	7 m (23 ft)		2011
Rocky and Bullwinkle Statue		Los Angeles, California	United States	6 m (20 ft)		1961
Statue of Dying Buddha	Buddha	Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh	India	6 m (20 ft)
Statue of Freedom	Freedom	Washington, District of Columbia	United States	6 m (19.5 ft)		1863
Statue of David	David	Florence, Tuscany	Italy	5.17 m (17 ft)		1504
Statue of Lenin	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	Seattle, Washington	United States	5 m (16.4 ft)		1988
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial	Theodore Roosevelt	Washington, District of Columbia	United States	5 m (16.4 ft)		1967

Destroyed

The Great Buddha of Bamiyan.

• Great Buddha of Bamiyan; Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan. 55 m (180 ft). Completed in 554 and destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
• Statue of Nebuchadnezzar, Province of Babylon. 45 m (147 ft).
• Minor Buddha of Bamiyan; Bamiyan province, Afghanistan. 37 m (121 ft). Completed in 507 and destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
• Colossus of Nero (later renamed as Colossus Solis); Rome, Italy. 36 m (120 ft). Completed in 75 with unknown date of destruction.
• The Cosmoplanetary Messiah; near Castellane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. 33 m (108 ft). Completed in 1990 and destroyed in 2001.
• Colossus of Rhodes; Rhodes island, Dodecanese region, Greece. 30 m (98.5 ft). Completed in 280 BC and destroyed in 226 BC.
• Statue of Maitreya Buddha; Ulan Bator, Mongolia. 24.5 m (80 ft). Completed in the 19th century and destroyed in 1937.
• King of Kings Jesus Statue, Monroe, Ohio, United States 19 m (62 ft) Completed in 2004, destroyed in 2010 by lightning strike and fire.
• Gundam statue; Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. 18 m (59 ft). Completed and destroyed in 2009. See also GREEN TOKYO Gundam project.
• Stalin's Monument in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 15.5 m, stood on some 15 m pedestal. Completed in 1955, destroyed in 1962.
• Statue of Artemis, Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, Turkey. 15 m. Completed in c. 550 BC and destroyed in 156 BC.
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia; Olympia, Peloponnese region, Greece. 12 m (39 ft). Completed in 432 BC and destroyed in 475 AD.
• Goddess of Democracy; Beijing, People's Republic of China. 10 m (33 ft). Completed and destroyed in 1989.
• Paro, Rapa Nui, Chile. 9.8 m (32 ft). Completed between circa 1250 CE and 1500 CE. See also Moai Paro.
• Colossal statue of Constantine, Basilica Nova of Maxentius and Constantine, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy.
• Kshitigarbha; Hatyai, Thailand. 9 m (33 ft).
• Statue of Athena Parthenos, Parthenon, Athens, Greece. 9 m (33 ft). Completed in 438 BC and destroyed in the 5th century AD.
• Statue of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Považská Bystrica. 8.70 m (28.5 ft). Completed on Sunday 5.5.1940 and destroyed on Monday 5.12.1955.
• statue of liberty in mytilene

Planned

Maitreya Project

• Statue of Unity (depicts Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel); Sadhu Bet riverbed, Gujarat, India. 182 m
• Maitreya Project (depicts Maitreya); Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. 152 m (500 ft).
• Noah Statue; North Sumatra, Indonesia. 80 m (262.5 ft).
• Waking the Dragon (bronze dragon on pedestal); Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom. 64 m (210 ft)
• Buddha Dordenma (depicts Shakyamuni Buddha); Thimphu, Bhutan. 51 m (169 ft).
• Shivaji statue; Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. 48 m (159 ft) with a 45.5 m (150 ft) pedestal.
• Jesus Christ statue, Marijan Hill, Split. 41 m.
• Goddess Mazu statue; Kudat, Borneo Island, Malaysia. 36 m.
• Statue of Durga Maa Bhavani at Ganga Talao lake shrine, Mauritius. 33 m (108 ft)
• Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Prešov, Prešov District. 33 m (108 ft). The statue should start building in about 2012.
• Statue of Sai Baba, Repur, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India. 30.5 m (100 ft)
• Statue of Maitreya Buddha; Dashi-Choling monastery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia. 24.5 m (80 ft), to be restored with the temple.
• Statue of Buddha; city Erdenet, Mongolia. 17 m (22 m with the temple), in progress.

Canceled projects and hiatus

• Crazy Horse Memorial (depicts Crazy Horse); Black Hills, South Dakota, United States. 172 m (564 ft) when completed.
• Garuda Wisnu Kencana (depicts Garuda; Vishnu; Bukit Peninsula, Bali, Indonesia. 146 m.
• Birth of the New World (depicts Christopher Columbus); Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 110 m (362 ft).

See also

• List of statues
• List of the tallest statues in the United States
• List Of Colossal Sculpture In Situ
• New Seven Wonders of the World

External links

• Top 10 highest monuments - Architecture Portal News
• (Italian)  Top highest monuments in the World