Rio de Janeiro's famous Christ the Redeemer statue marks 90

Construction of the statue began as early as 1922, according to plans by the Brazilian civil engineer Heitor da Silva Costa. Financing problems delayed its completion before it could be inaugurated on October 12, 1931. The 30-meter (98-foot)-tall statue in Art Deco style weighs more than 1,200 tons. Its base, roughly 8 meters high, is home to a chapel.

The Christ the King statue (Polish: Pomnik Chrystusa Króla) is a monumental figure in Swiebodzin, western Poland. It was raised on a 16-meter-high mound in 2010 and measures 36 meters, making it the tallest Christ figure in the world and 6 meters higher than the statue in Rio de Janeiro.

The statue, which is over 34 meters high, is the second tallest statue of Christ in the world after the Christ the King statue in Poland. It was modeled after the Rio monument and weighs more than 2,000 tons. The arms have a span of 32.87 meters (roughly 108 feet), and the top can be reached after climbing 1,399 steps. Construction work was completed on November 20, 1994.

At 32 meters high, the Christ of Vung Tau (Vietnamese: Tuong Chua Kito Vua), standing in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, is the fourth tallest statue of Christ in the world and the largest of its kind in Asia. Construction began in 1974, while the Vietnam War was still raging, and was completed in 1993. This statue can also be climbed via a staircase inside.

The Christ Blessing (Indonesian: Kristus kase Berkat, Malaysian: Yesus Memberkati) is a 30-meter high statue of Christ. It has become the new landmark of the city of Manado, is made of 25 tons of steel wire and 35 tons of steel and was completed in 2007. Because of its 20-degree forward tilt, it is also called the "first and largest flying statue in the world."

With arms outstretched, the figure turns toward the city of Lisbon. It stands on a 75-meter-high plinth and measures 28 meters itself, making it the seventh largest statue of Christ in the world. Together with Fatima and Santiago de Compostela, it is one of the three most important places of pilgrimage on the Iberian Peninsula. It was completed in 1959.

The Cristo Redentore was created between 1963 and 1965 by the Florentine sculptor Bruno Innocenti from a special mixture of cement and white Carrara marble. The statue, which stands in southern Italy, is 21.13 meters high and weighs around 400 tons. The span of the outstretched arms is around 19 meters.

The Cristo Rey is a a good 20-meter high bronze statue built in the 1940s to replace an earlier statue of Christ destroyed during the Mexican Civil War. It is the world's largest bronze statue of Christ. At the foot of the figure is a modern globe-shaped basilica, which is one of the most visited pilgrimage churches in Mexico.