Mike Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 Swedish parishioners unveil Lego statue of Jesus STOCKHOLM -- Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks. It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the tiny plastic blocks together, and their creation shows a standing Jesus facing forward with his arms outstretched. The Protestant church was filled to capacity with about 400 worshippers on Sunday when the statue went on display behind the altar, and some of the children in the congregation couldn't help but touch the white art work. Church spokesman Per Wilder said the statue at the Onsta Gryta church in the central Swedish city of Vasteras is a copy of Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's "Christus" statue on display in Copenhagen. He also said that even though the statue is all white on the outside, many of the donated Legos that the church received were of other colors and were placed inside. Image Copyright © 2009 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 That's prettty cool, but I didn't know Jesus had a clubfoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcM Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 They look like duck feet to me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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