Author: Asia Book of Records Team

People’s Committee of Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province, Vietnam is the largest historical prison having capacity of about 1000 of prisoners. The prison was made between March 1, 1862 and April 30, 1975, has 8 detention centers of length up to 25 sq. m. This place is considered as “prison in prison”, “hell in hell” as there are 20 rock tunnels, 14 cells, 31 condemned cells, 120 French tiger cages and 384 U.S. tiger cages.

People’s Committee of Ba Ria, Vung Tau Province, Vietnam has made the largest statue of Jesus Christ on the mountain ‘Tao Phung’, Vietnam between 1974 and 1994. The statue is placed on a pedestal, measuring 32 m high and length of the arms is 18.4 m.  Inside the statue, there is a spiral staircase with 133 stairs.

Linh Phuoc Pagoda of Da Lat City, Vietnam has the largest Buddha Avalokiteshvara statue made up of 650,000 immortelle flowers (1.630 kg) by 30 artisans and 600 Buddhists in 36 days (from November 25, 2009 to December 31, 2009). The statue measuring 17 m in height and weighs 3 tons and was inaugurated on December 31, 2009 at Vietnam.

Bai Dinh Pagoda of Vietnam has largest gild Buddha Shakyamuni statue, which is made up of Bronze, measuring 10 m high and weighs 100 tonnes, made between 2004 and 2006. It is mounted on 1.5 m high platform in the Shakyamuni Shrine which is made up of reinforced concrete wood (30 m in height, 44.7 m in length, 43.3 m in width, and 1.945 sq. meter area).

Two corridors measuring 1.700 m in length, belongs to Bai Dinh Pagoda of Vietnam. The corridor which was made in 2005 by 100 artisans and 700 workers consists of 500 Arhat statues and each statue is made up of monolith in different shapes and sizes measuring 2 to 2.5 m in height and an average weight of 2 to 2.5 tons. The whole corridor was made between 2004 and 2008.

A copper Pagoda measuring 1.35 m in height, 1.1 m bottom in width, 1.4 m in length, 70 tons in weight and having an area of 20 sq. meter, on the mountain, was made by Quang Ninh Buddhistical Managing Committee of Vietnam, between June 3, 2006 and January 30, 2007. Tiles and bells were used to make the pagoda, and was inaugurated at Mount Yen Tu, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.

S.  Joachim a multiple  world record holder ( 67 world record) has been awarded the ‘Asian of the year’ for the year 2012.

Alessandro Bonacorsi a tatoo artist from Italy made 102 tattoos on his wife Doti Stefani’s leg in 5 minutes during Records Breakers Festival in India on January 12, 2012.

S.Joachim, a multiple world record holder originally from Srilanka now settled in Canada was awarded ‘Asian of the Year 2011’ by Asia Book of Records.

Token of thanks from Asia Book of Records to Russia Book of Records