A free-standing sculpture that depicts one or more people or animals in their entirety or in part (such as a bust). The heights mentioned are the statue’s own and (separately) the monument’s total height, which includes any structures the statue is standing on or holding. Monuments with statues are only included in this list if the statue meets these and the height requirements.

List of Top 10 Tallest Statues in the World

Description

1. Statue of Unity (Height: 182 m): Completed in 2018, the Statue of Unity is the world’s tallest statue depicting Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. Gujarat, India, is home to the statue.
2. Spring Temple Buddha (Height: 128 m): It is the world’s second-largest statue depicting Buddha. It was completed in 2008 and is located in Henan, China.
3. Laykyun Sekkya (Height: 115.8 m): This Buddha statue was erected in 2008 in Myanmar’s Sagaing Division.
4. The Statue of Belief (Height: 106 meters): The Statue of Belief is the world’s tallest Shiva statue. It was unveiled in the year 2020 in Rajasthan, India.
5. Ushiku Daibutsu (Height: 100 m): The Buddha statue was constructed in 1993 and is located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. From 1993 to 2008, it was the world’s tallest statue.
6. Sendai Daikannon (Height:100 m): From 1991-to 1993, the statue depicting Kannon was the world’s tallest statue. It is situated in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture.
7. Guishan Guanyin (Height: 99 m): The gilded bronze statue depicts Guanyin, who has eleven heads and thousands of arms. The statue, which was unveiled in 2009 in Hunan, China, stands tall.
8. Thailand’s Great Buddha (Height: 92 m): In Ang Thong, Thailand, there is a concrete statue of Buddha painted in gold. It first opened its doors in 2008.
9. Kita no Miyako Park’s Dai Kannon (Height: 88 m): Kannon is depicted in the statue, which was built in 1989. It’s in Hokkaido, Japan, and it used to be the world’s largest.
10. The Motherland Calls (85 m): The Motherland Calls is Europe’s tallest statue, which was unveiled in 1967. The statue depicts Mother Motherland and is located in Volgograd, Russia. It is also the world’s tallest female statue without pedestals.

Statue of Unity

With a height of 182 meters (597 feet), the Statue of Unity is the world’s tallest statue, located in Gujarat, India. It depicts Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950), an Indian statesman and independence activist who served as the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India and was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. 

The Statue of Unity Movement began in 2013 with the goal of collecting the iron required for the statue by asking farmers to donate their old farming tools. By 2016, 135 metric tonnes of scrap iron had been collected, with about 109 tonnes of it being used to construct the statue’s foundation after processing. In the 11 days following its public unveiling on November 1, 2018, over 128,000 tourists visited the statue. In November 2019, the daily average tourist footfall at the Statue of Unity was 15,036, outpacing the Statue of Liberty (which attracts around 10,000 daily visitors on average). It was named one of the ‘8 Wonders of SCO’ by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Laykyun Sekkya

In the village of Khatakan Taung, near Monywa, Myanmar, this statue of Gautama Buddha sits on a 13.5-meter (44-foot) throne. Construction began in 1996 and ended on February 21, 2008. The Ven. Chief Abbot commissioned it. For a few months, it was the world’s tallest statue until the Spring Temple Buddha was completed in September 2008. The Laykyun Sekkya statue depicts the Mahaparinirvana scene, with a standing Gautama Buddha next to a reclining Gautama Buddha.

Spring Temple Buddha

The Spring Temple Buddha is a colossal statue of Vairocana Buddha that was built from 1997 to 2008 in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China. It’s in the Fodushan Scenic Area, close to the National Freeway No. 311. It is the world’s second-tallest statue, after the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, at 128 meters (420 feet). It includes a 25-meter (82-foot) lotus throne.

The Temple of the Spring The nearby Tianrui hot spring, whose water, at 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), is renowned in the area for its curative properties, gave Buddha its name. The Bell of Good Luck is housed in the Foquan Temple, which was built during the Tang dynasty and is located on top of Dragon Head peak. This bronze bell is 116 tonnes in weight. A small reverse swastika is carved into the statue’s chest.

Conclusion

Completed statues that are at least 30 m (98 ft) tall, which was the assumed height of the Colossus of Rhodes, are included in the list of tallest statues. The height values in this list refer to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but they do not include the height of any pedestal, another base platform, mast, spire, or other structure.