Christus (statue)

The Church of Our Lady was destroyed by fire in September 1807 from bombardment by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, part of the Napoleonic Wars.

When the church was being rebuilt, Thorvaldsen was commissioned in 1819 to sculpt statues of Jesus and the apostles, a baptismal font, other furnishings, and decorative elements.

A plaster cast model was supplied for the church's consecration on 7 June 1829, with the finished white Carrara marble statue replacing it in November 1833.

It was completed by the Rebechi Aldo & Gualtiero studio and made from white Carrara marble from Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy in April 1959.

[7] After the World's Fair ended on 17 October 1965, the replica was shipped from New York to the Los Angeles California Temple visitors' center on 21 November 1966.

Since then, the church has created replicas of the statue and displayed them in temple visitors' centers at the Laie Hawaii, Mexico City Mexico, Washington D.C., Oakland California, St. George Utah, Idaho Falls Idaho, Nauvoo Illinois, Palmyra New York, London England, Portland Oregon, Paris France, São Paulo Brazil, Provo City Center,[7][8] and Rome Italy temples, with the statue in Rome also accompanied by replicas of Thorvaldsen's twelve apostles.