Africa’s Tallest Jesus Statue Unveiled by Catholic Church in Imo State.

Africa’s largest statue of Jesus was unveiled in the Imo state village  of Abajah yesterday.
The 8.53 metre (28 foot) tall “Jesus de Greatest” statue commissioned in 2013, was built by a Chinese company and  carved in white marble.

Standing barefoot with arms outstretched, the 40 ton statue  towers over St. Aloysius Catholic Church
in  the village.
More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshippers attended the statue’s official unveiling.
It was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha, a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it and placed it in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.