World's Largest Chanukia
For the Chanukah celebration of 2007, officials of Birobidzhan in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast claimed to have built the world's largest chanukia at approximately 21 metres (69 ft) tall. It is larger than its counterpart in New York, which is only about 9.8 metres (32 ft) tall.
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