Statue of Union
statue of Hanuman in Houston, Texas
Statue of Union is a 90-foot (27 m) statue of the Hindu God Hanuman, that is located at Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Houston (with a postal address in Sugar Land, Texas, United States). It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after the Birth of the New World, the Statue of Liberty and the Pegasus and Dragon. The statue is named Statue of Union because Lord Hanuman reunited Rama with Sita in the Hindu epic Ramayana. The statue symbolises “selflessness, devotion, and unity.”
Construction
The Statue of Union was envisioned by an Indian spiritual leader Chinna Jeeyar Swami, who also envisioned the Statue of Equality in Hyderabad, India. He called the statue a spiritual epicenter for North America. The statue was designed by Chinna Jeeyar Swami in India. The parts were manufactured in China and then shipped to the United States and assembled at the temple. Sreenarasimhaiah, the temple's vice president, said that people of "all sorts of faiths" worked on the project locally.
The statue is cast in bronze. It is 90 feet tall and weights 90 tons.
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