Tallest statue of deity unveiled


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 31 Jan 2006

KUALA LUMPUR: About 30,000 Hindu devotees and visitors came to witness the official unveiling of the country’s tallest Lord Murugan statue on Sunday and the garlanding of the golden statue yesterday. 

Temple officials were now hoping to get the 42.7m statue, located at the Sri Subramaniar Temple at the foot of Batu Caves, into the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest Lord Murugan statue in the world. 

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