Kenya’s Christ the Redeemer sculpture: Lodwar's door to heaven

Sculpture of Jesus Christ in Lodwar

• Lodwar’s statue is a mirror image of the iconic Christ The Redeemer sculpture
• The gigantic statue of Jesus Christ stands at the Lodwar Catholic Diocese
• Missionaries set foot in Lodwar in the 1960s

Known for its desolate images of hunger, poverty, marginalisation and everything else that depicts the shortcomings of Kenya, Turkana is the most unlikely of locations for one of the country’s most iconic but little known religious monuments.

Towering conspicuously on top of one of the many hills that overlook Lodwar town, the political seat of Turkana County, is a grey gigantic statue of Jesus Christ with hands spread apart.