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"Made from the magnificent Carrara White Marble" Hands of Friendship "- a monument was established in 1967. In 1965, Bienale was organized in the city of Carrara, in which a young sculptor from Yerevan Ara Harutyunyan took part, by that time the author of three major monuments was already known (Sanya Nova, Committee's tombstone, "Lion" in Gegard). By visiting the famous marble quarry Carrara, the sculptor noted the details of a large sculpture: hands, parts of the legs, head. It turned out that these are the details of the future statue of Christ, which the author probably probably I did not graduate from the absence of the patron, the delegation of the Yerevan City Council visited Carrara. In the sign of the friendship of two cities, the municipality of the city of Carrara sends these details in Yerevan.