Gorgeous And Inventive Menorahs From Around The World To Celebrate Hanukkah

Israel Electric, the main supplier of electrical power in Israel, creates an interpretation of a menorah using cranes, as it tries to create the world's largest menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in the city of Tel Aviv on Dec. 4, 2013.

Colorful menorah made of large plastic building blocks during Hanukkah in Toronto on Dec. 9, 2007.

Chabad of South Bay added a twist to its annual Hanukkah festival by lighting a menorah made of chocolate. The "Chanukah in the Chocolate Factory" event featured an 8-foot-tall menorah, which children helped finish by painting on the final coats of chocolate before the lighting ceremony.

Menorah candles, with olive oil–fueled wicks, are seen at the home of Rabbi Yossi and Mushky Bendet in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Dec. 13, 2017.

The first lamp of a large-scale menorah on Dec. 16, 2014, in Berlin

A Hanukkah lamp at Lincoln Road Mall in Miami, Florida

Nassi, 12, wears a glowing menorah during the first night of Hanukkah festivities in the public square in Olde Town Arvada on Dec. 2, 2018, in Arvada, Colorado.

This picture taken on March 4, 2019, shows a 62-foot-tall menorah near the town of Tondano, North Sulawesi, in Indonesia.

Rabbi Moshe Wilansky lights the first candle on the large menorah in a ceremony commemorating the first day of Hanukkah week on Dec. 25, 2005.

Giant menorah attached to a truck during Hanukkah in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2020.

People dance in front of the world's largest Hanukkah menorah during the celebration of the first night of Hanukkah in New York City on Nov. 28, 2021.

Rabbi Shmuel Havlin climbs atop a ladder in front of Hanukkah candles made out of Lego blocks in the hall of the Joseph-Carlebach-Schule in Hamburg, Germany, on Dec. 9, 2015.

Rabbi Mordechai Grossbaum and Ross Paskoff lit the finished ice menorah sculpted in front of Byerly's in St. Louis Park in December 2018.

Menorahs and other Judaica sold in the market in the old city of Jerusalem in 2019.

A light-up menorah is seen on top of a car at the Village at the Peaks in Longmont, New York.

Mendel Wilansky, 20, sits at the base of a menorah during a Hanukkah celebration at Happy Wheels skating in Portland, Maine, on the seventh day of Hanukkah on Dec. 13, 2015.

A menorah snowglobe souvenir, photographed circa 2002

Worshipers during the lighting of Hanukkah candles in Rostov-on-Don in Russia on Dec. 25, 2015