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Largest cross?

Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP

Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP

Fireworks explode near a towering cross in Qanat Bekish, in the Lebanese mountains late on Monday night. Lebanon’s Maronite Christian Church inaugurated the cross that stands 73.8 metres tall. The cross which is lit up with 1,800 spotlights took about two years to erect and cost some $1.5 million. The cross which its builders say is the largest in the world was inaugurated on the Elevation of the Holy Cross, marking the recovery of the cross, on which Jesus Christ is believed to have been crucified, by the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in 627 AD after defeating the Sassanid Persians.

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