29 More Giant Hands Around The World

Found Twenty Nine (29) more giant hands have been added today (19/11/2018) in the Giant Hands Around The World Collection.

Newly found hands are;
  1. Hands of Friendship, Circular Park, Yerevan, Armenia
  2. Namaste Hands, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
  3. Holding Hands, Peace Park, Nagasaki, Japan
  4. Clasped Hands, Lagenda Park, Kuah, Langkawi Island, Malaysia
  5. Monument to Party Founding, Pyongyang, North Korea
  6. "With Us", GT Tower East, Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea
  7. Hands in Hell, White Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand
  8. Giant Hand Holding Perfume Bottle, Fujairah, UAE
  9. "Hope and Love for Peace", Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam
  10. Passion, Charleroi, Belgium
  11. Solidarity Heroes Sculpture, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
  12. Welcoming Hands, Tuileries Garden, Paris, France
  13. Hand With Watch, Berlin, Germany
  14. The Vaulted Hands, Waldkater, Helmstedt, Germany
  15. Giant Hand with Globe on its Finger Tip, Monte Carlo, Monaco
  16. Two Hands, Oslo, Norway
  17. Hand on Balcony, Collegium Nobilium, Warsaw, Poland
  18. 4 Hand Cut-outs, Park of 50th Anniversary of October, Moscow, Russia
  19. Monument to The Lovers, Cordoba, Spain
  20. Monument to "Valencian Pilota", Xativa, Valencia, Spain
  21. Welcome to Subtopia, Alby, Stockholm, Sweden
  22. Red Hand, Wädenswil, Switzerland
  23. Hand Supporting A Tree, Bideford, England, UK
  24. Healing Hands, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England, UK
  25. Two Hands, Walmsley Park, Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, England, UK
  26. The Hand, University of Saskatchewan Art Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
  27. The Hands, Zicatela Beach, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
  28. Hands of Sir Edward James, Las Pozas, Xilitla, San Luis Potos, Mexico
  29. Folded Hands, Tampa Synagogue, Tampa, FL, USA
Hands of Friendship, Circular Park, Yerevan, Armenia
A symbol of Armenian-Italian Friendship. It was a gift from the city of Carrara, Tuscany, Italy to Yerevan.

Image from Wikimedia Commons is by 23artashes

Google Street View (Photosphere)

Namaste Hands, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India
Two giant golden hands, folded in the form of Namaste (A traditional way of Hindu greeting) located at a roundabout in Ahmedabad.

Image from Google+ Photos is by Apu Dar


Holding Hands, Peace Park, Nagasaki, Japan
The Peace Park is full statutes donated from around the world and each statue, conveys a message of friendship and peace to the city of Nagasaki, by donor cities/countries. This sculpture which is a cut out of a male and female fingers holding their solid hands, is called "Infinity" and was donated by Ankara, Turkey.

Image from Flickr is by Joseph Hollick

Clasped Hands, Lagenda Park, Kuah, Langkawi Island, Malaysia
A pair of giant hands supported another pair of large hands holding a spade (?).
Monument to Party Founding, Pyongyang, North Korea
The monument shows three gigantic hands holding hammer, sickle and calligraphy brush, symbolizing the workers, farmers and intellectuals. Designed by Mansudae Art Studio, it is 50 meters high to symbolize the 50-year anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea. It was unveiled on 10 October 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the party.
Source: Wikipedia

"With Us", GT Tower East, Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea
Three large, upraised hands in front of the GT Tower East. The artwork entitled "With Us" was created by Kim Moon Gyeong.

Image from Flickr is by Adrian Dutch

Source: phyang.org

Hands in Hell, White Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand
The contemporary Wat Rong Khun (aka White Temple), designed by local artist Chalermchai Kositpipat is full of symbolism based on the teachings of the Buddha.

The main building of the temple is reached by a bridge over a  small lake and hundreds of out stretched hands, emerge out of pits on both sides of passage way to the bridge.

As per Wikipedia the hands "....symbolize unrestrained desire. The bridge proclaims that the way to happiness is by foregoing temptation, greed, and desire."

Image from Flickr is by Babak Fakhamzadeh

Image from Flickr is by Edgardo W. Olivera

Giant Hand Holding Perfume Bottle, Fujairah, UAE
Many roundabouts in Middle East/Saidi Arabia etc. have some sculpture to identify the roundabout. This roundabout in Fujairah, known as "Perfume Bottle Roundabout" is at the intersection of F20 with E89 and shows a giant hand holding a beautiful carved perfume bottle.

Image from defunct Panoramio is by Bruxel. Available now at web.archive.org

Google Street View

"Hope and Love for Peace",  Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi, Vietnam

Two giant hands holding a Globe with a dove on top of it. The Globe also depicts an oversized map of Vietnam in red.

Image from Flickr is by Hanumann

Google Maps (Likely location)

"Passion", Charleroi, Belgium
"Passation" an art work installed in front of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi. Designed by sculptor, Martin Guyaux it shows three bizarre and spindly hands reaching out to sky.

Image from Flickr is by bcamillini

Solidarity Heroes Sculpture, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Located on the Paseo de Las Canteras, it is a monument to 11 persons who died while trying to save their co-worker, who had fallen into rotten fish waste-water tank of a fish canning factory. This artwork by Etual Ojeda shows three hands, joined together and was commissioned in 2006. The Spanish text on the pedestal translates in English as;
To the memory of those who gave, their life for others on January 4, 1979.
And also in memory of all the deceased in work accident.

Image from Flickr is by Rosa

"Welcoming Hands", Tuileries Garden, Paris
This is a multi piece sculpture by French/American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Located near the Jeu de Paume museum side, overlooking place de la Concorde, it consists of hands interacting with other hands on 6 granite pedestals, each has one or more bronze hands. 3 pedestals have 4 interacting hands each, 2 pedestals have 3 hands each and the 6th pedestal has solo (child's) hand.

Image from Flickr is by Maximiliano Martin

Image from Flickr is by Thierry

Image from Flickr is by Maximiliano Martin

Hand With Watch, Berlin
Hand mit Uhr (Hand With Watch) located at the intersection of Lessingstraße and Altonaer Straße in Berlin, is a sculpture by German sculptor Joachim Schmettau. Unveiled in 1975 it shows hand with watch, holding an orange cube. Due to weathering and graffiti vandalism it fell in disrepair and was removed in 2008. After renovation it was restored back in 2012. The hand originally had analog watch, which after renovation was replaced with a digital watch.

Image from Flickr is by Bergfels

Google Street View

"The Vaulted Hands", Waldkater, Helmstedt, Germany
The sculpture titled "La voûte des mains" (The Vaulted Hands) is located on the German Federal Highway service area Waldkater, Helmstedt, Germany. The interlocked hands symbolises the unity. The 9 M high sculpture opened in 1995 was designed by the French artist José Castell.

Image from Wikimedia Commons is by Times

Giant Hand with Globe on its Finger Tip, Monte Carlo, Monaco
"Ludus" (meaning unknown?) is an art work of of sculptor Bernard Bezzina unveiled near Casino Monte-Carlo in Sept. 2107. The sculptor had offered for the auction for the benefit of the Prince Albert II Foundation. It is not known if the sculptor is still there or has been taken away by the successful bider. It is visible in the Google Earth Imagery of April 2018.

Made of white bronze with Corten steel base it measures 4.60 x 2.66 x 1.58 m (15 1/10 x 8 2/3 x 5 2/5 ft)

Image from Flickr is by Marko Davidovic

Two Hands, Oslo, Norway
Looks like two persons about to shake hands. It is one of several sculptures located in the Fontana Center Park near the Norwegian Parliament, Oslo.
Hand on Balcony, Collegium Nobilium, Warsaw, Poland
A huge hand on the balcony of Collegium Nobilium building. The 18th century building was almost completely destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising. It was rebuilt after the war, together with its classic façade. It now houses the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art.
4 Hand Cut-outs, Park of 50th Anniversary of October, Moscow
Large cut-outs of 4 hands entitled "Ладошки" (Ladoshki - probably meaning hands) in Park of 50 Anniversary of October, Moscow. The park was recently renovated and the original cut-outs were replaced with cut-out of different design.
Cut-outs as visible till Sept. 2017.

Image from Google+ Photos is by Александр Смирнов

Cut-outs as seen in Aug. 2018

Image from Google+ Photos is by Вячеслав Иноземцев

Google Maps

Monument to The Lovers, Cordoba, Spain
"Monumento a Los Enamorados" (Monument to The Lovers) is a monument in memory of the love story of 11th century Moorish princess poet Wallada, daughter of Caliph al-Mustakfi of Cordoba and poet Ibn Zaydún.

The monument depicts two touching hands mounted on a pedestal. Poems of Wallada and Ibn Zaydún, in Arabic with Spanish translation, are inscribed on the supporting pedestal.

Image from Flickr is by -Reji

Image from Flickr is by amanda

Monument to "Valencian Pilota", Xativa, Valencia, Spain
"Valencian Pilota" is a traditional handball game played in the Valencian Community and the ball is struck with a bare, or almost bare, hand. The sculpture shows two giant hands with one hand holding a ball. The sculpture is installed at "Vistas de Sant Josep" near the road leading to the Xativa Castle.
Welcome to Subtopia, Alby, Stockholm
A land mark sculpture in the form of a giant hand holding a ball (snowball?) pointing towards Subtopia in Alby, a southern suburb of Stockholm, Sweden.

Image from Flickr is by Mikaela Samuelsson

Google Street View

Red Hand, Wädenswil, Switzerland
Located in Giessen 6, 8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland, no details are available about this hand.

Image copied from pinterest.ch is by Rodrigue R.R. Brugger

Credits: Krenek (an active member of Google Earth Community Forums) who informed me about this hand. Thank you Krenek.

Hand Supporting A Tree, Bideford, England
An innovative prop in the form of a hand, for supporting thick branch of a tree growing horizontally.

Image from Flickr is by Andrew Bennett

Healing Hands, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England
Fixed on the wall of the Dept. of Genito-Urinary Medicine, Jarvis Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester. The relief is made from 9 blocks of Portland stone and depicts a woman lying on two hands. Designed by Sculptor Albert Pountney, it was commissioned in 1954. The artwork is 2.45 m (8 ft) wide, 1.85 m (6 ft) high and about 0.35 m (1ft 2 inch) deep.

Image from Flickr is by Kiran Parmar

Source: vads.ac.uk

Two Hands, Walmsley Park, Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, England
Located in front of the entrance to the Walmsley Park.

Image Source: geograph.org.uk

The Hand, University of Saskatchewan Art Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
This hand with painted nails is one of the several sculptures, of varying forms and materials, which adorn the Art Park of the University. It is one of the few in this collection with painted nails.

Image source: Google Street View

Credits: Willi1 (an active member of Google Earth Community Forums) who informed me about this hand. Thank you Willi.

"The Hands", Zicatela Beach, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
"The Hands" (Las Monos) on the rocks on the beach of Zicatela, Puerto Escondido.

Image from Google+ Photos is by Y2 J

Hands of Sir Edward James, Las Pozas, Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Las Pozas ("the Pools") a large garden created by Sir Edward James in a subtropical rainforest near the village of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, more than 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level. Sir Edward James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement and Las Pozas has natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete. These two hands are reportedly modelled after the hands of Sir James.

Image from Flickr is by Esteban Romero

Google Maps (Las Pozas)

Source: Wikipedia

Folded Hands, Tampa Synagogue, Florida
A pair of folded hands on the Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue of Tampa, Florida.
Image Source: Google Street View

Credits: Willi1 (an active member of Google Earth Community Forums) who informed me about this hand. Thank you Willi.


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