by Susan | Dec 2, 2019 | Monuments
The Canadian Tribute to Human Rights is a monumental sculpture designed by Montreal artist and architect Melvin Charney and unveiled by the fourteenth Dalai Lama in 1990. Standing over thirty feet high and constructed of red granite and concrete, the Monument’s...
by Susan | Nov 25, 2019 | Monuments
This monument was donated to the City of Windsor by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamā’ and was unveiled on Windsor’s Riverfront on October, 20, 2017. It features four differently colored hands (representing diversity of culture and races) coming together to hold up a globe with a...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2019 | Monuments
The Ave Quiromantica is a bronze sculpture located on Calle Bolsa, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain. It is half pigeon and half an open hand, the whole sculpture resting on a marble base. It was based on a sketch done by the poet Rafael Perez Estrada, to whom the monument is...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2019 | Monuments
In 1910 the Nordic Peace Congress in Stockholm decided that a peace monument should be raised on the border between Sweden and Norway to celebrate 100 year of peace between the countries. The building of the peace monument was finished in 1914. The design of the Peace...
by Susan | Nov 4, 2019 | Monuments
The Head of the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Sandra Honoré, unveiled a peace sculpture in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince on September 28, 2017. The installation, which will remain at the National Police Academy, is called ‘Ann Chwazi Lapè’ (meaning...
by Susan | Oct 28, 2019 | Monuments
The Peace Candle of the World, also known as the Scappoose Peace Candle, is an approximately 50-foot-tall structure, built in 1971 outside what was then the Brock Candles Inc. factory, which burned down in 1990. The land was formerly a dairy farm; the candle was...
