Sunday, November 6, 2011
Largest Ten Commandments: Philippines sets world record
BAGUIO, Philippines --Measuring 1645 square feet (152.90 square meter), the giant Ten Commandments tablet unveiled in the Philippines was
built at Dominican Hill - Baguio's prayer mountain for free by the Kingdom of Jerusalem Halleluyah Foundation International; it sets the new world record for the Largest Ten Commandments, according to World Record Academy (www.worldrecordacademy.com).
Photo: A boy looks at the world's largest tablet of the ten commandments on display in Baguio City, north of Manila. Photo: AFP, STR. (enlarge photo)
The Guinness world record for the first bible published in North America was the so-called "Eliot Bible" which was printed in 1663 at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was written in the Algonquin Indian language.
Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest religious structure ever built is Angkor Wat (City Temple), enclosing 162.6 ha (401 acres) in Cambodia.
The World's Largest Ten Commandments tablet, a copy of the rules supposedly handed down by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, was inaugurated by city officials on a hill overlooking the northern resort city of Baguio overnight.
It cost P5 million to build, said Mayor Mauricio Domogan, who in behalf of the 350,000 Baguio residents, received the certification from a Guinness World Records representative.
"This beautiful and divine edifice will serve to drive away the evils of spirits that time and again emerge," said Baguio Congressman Bernardo Vergara at the inauguration.
Israel Ambassador to the Philippines Menashe Bar-on who also led a "tree planting" of an authentic Jerusalem-grown olive tree in front of the Ten Commandments building and tablet prayed in Hebrew that "the country and Baguio be healed and move forward."
The religious leader who sponsored the project, Grace Galindez-Gupana, topped her previous world record, attained in 2009 when she built a similar 65-square-metre tablet on a hill outside Manila.
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