Buddha Statue of Hyderabad

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The Buddha Statue of Hyderabad is an iconic monolithic statue situated on the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, India. Standing at an impressive height of 18 meters (approximately 58 feet) and weighing around 450 tons, it is one of the tallest monolithic statues of Gautama Buddha in the world. Carved out of a single piece of white granite rock, the statue was commissioned by N. T. Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, and was unveiled in 1992.

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