Swiebodzin, a small Polish town of just 21,000 is trying to stamp its mark on the global tourist map by building the world's largest statue of Jesus.
The statue will be 33-metres in height, and with its 2-metre crown and a 16-metre mound will easily eclipse Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer in size.
The statue is due for completion in November, and should beat out the world's current record holder, Bolivia's Cristo de la Concodia statue, by some nine metres, and be larger by far than the world famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, which stands just 30 metres tall minus its plinth.
Although the main reason for the statue is to show gratitude to God, town officials are not denying their hopes that having the massive statue will bring tourists into a community that has lain off the beaten track for most of its existence.
"If we had opened a racetrack or a golf course here, tourists would have come only for the season. But with a statue of Jesus the season will last the whole year," a local official told Wprost, a weekly news magazine.