buttal sa al says you lose a lo you only come for a selfie. >> it is a catholic sanctuary. people come here not only to take selfies and pictures, but they come here to have an experience with god. >> construction started in 1926, took five years to complete. this is a 98-foot statue with the wing span almost as wide. built with steel reinforced concrete and covered in a mosaic of triangular pieces of stone. individually cut by the society women of rio in the 1930s who wrote the names of their loved once on the backs of each time, hoping for divine protection. >> having the certainty that their names would be remembered by the christ himself. >> reporter: a jewish architect spent years here overseeing the construction. duriha accident. but levy almost lost his life when he fell from the scaffolding. >> and his workers held him up. he said let me go. everybody is going to fall. >> reporter: levy considered himself protected by the christ and later converted from judaism to catholicism. he put his family's name into a glass sill iner did and cemented it in the heart of the st