The 73-meter (238-foot) manufactured tree in capital Colombo is 18 meters (59 feet) taller than the present record holder, coordinators said. The tree's steel-and-wire edge is secured with a plastic net beautified with more than 1 million characteristic pine cones painted red, gold, green and silver, 600,000 LED globules and beat by a 6-meter (20-foot)- tall sparkling star.
The tree costs $80,000 and was reprimanded by the Catholic Church as a "misuse of cash." The congregation recommended that the assets better be spent on helping poor people.
Several port laborers and volunteers battled for four months to set up the tree in time for the occasions. Work was suspended for six days toward the beginning of December after Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith — speaking to the island country's 1.5 million Catholics — attacked the venture. PM Ranil Wickremesinghe reacted to the feedback by saying the tree was not being worked with open cash, but rather with gifts from people and private firms.
The Guinness World Records is yet to affirm if this is the tallest counterfeit Christmas tree. As of now, the record is held by a Chinese firm that set up a 55-meter (180-foot) tree-like tower of lights and engineered foliage, adornments and lights in the city of Guangzhou a year ago.
Sri Lankan coordinators said they needed the tree to advance ethnic and religious concordance in the Buddhist-dominant part island country, where a long respectful war finished in 2009 however compromise remains a test.
"This is just to demonstrate the world that we can live as one nation, one country," said Arjuna Ranatunga, a previous cricket player and the clergyman of ports and transporting. He said Sri Lanka still will be as yet pondering issues in regards to religion, standing and race.
Minority Christian and Muslim people group gripe of state-supported separation, and there are claims of across the board mishandle against minority ethnic Tamils both amid and after the war.
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