Heitor da Silva Costa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian engineer
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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Heitor da Silva Costa
- Heitor da Silva Costa (25 July 1873 – 21 April 1947, in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian civil engineer, designer and constructor of the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro.
- In 1924, Heitor won a completion for the construction of monumental Christ the Saviour statue Monumento Cristo Redentor on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro organized by the Catholic Church.
- The reason for the competition was the one hundred year anniversary of the independence of Brazil (1822).
- The monument was inaugurated on 12 October 1931.
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