Gorgeous And Inventive Menorahs From Around The World To Celebrate Hanukkah

For the third day of Hanukkah, we looked at menorahs of all shapes and sizes from around the world.

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Pia Peterson
by Pia Peterson

BuzzFeed News Photo Editor

A bunch of trucks with their ladders raised as menorahs
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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.

a giant menorah made of colorful blocks in the snow
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Colorful menorah made of large plastic building blocks during Hanukkah in Toronto on Dec. 9, 2007.


A menorah made of chocolate with two children below it, stores in the background
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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.

a close up of a menorah with oil and wicks
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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.

a large menorah with a star of david photographed at night with an ornate building behind it
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The first lamp of a large-scale menorah on Dec. 16, 2014, in Berlin

A menorah made of seashells sits below palm trees with a Christmas tree behind it
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A Hanukkah lamp at Lincoln Road Mall in Miami, Florida

A menorah necklace glows against a persons scarf
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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.

A large unlit menorah is photographed from below, next to a temple and with a lot of greenery
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This picture taken on March 4, 2019, shows a 62-foot-tall menorah near the town of Tondano, North Sulawesi, in Indonesia.

A man on an orange ladder lights one of eight lanterns on a giant menorah
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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.

A truck with a giant menorah in the back of it parked outside a house
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Giant menorah attached to a truck during Hanukkah in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2020.

Two women dance outside a large menorah in brooklyn at night
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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.

A rabbi climbs a ladder to get to the top of an extremely tall lego menorah in front of a crowd
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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.

Two men light a menorah made of ice in front of a crowd
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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 lanps and a tea set displayed on tables at an outdoor bazaar
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Menorahs and other Judaica sold in the market in the old city of Jerusalem in 2019.

A menorah decoration reads "happy chanukah," behind it you can see a large sign that reads "Village"
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A light-up menorah is seen on top of a car at the Village at the Peaks in Longmont, New York.

A man in roller skates site below a menorah made of PVC pipe, with a crowd behind him
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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 snow globe with a menorah inside, on a white background
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A menorah snowglobe souvenir, photographed circa 2002

Four people hold candles in a semi circle outside at a Hanukkah celebration, a large menorah is behind them
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Worshipers during the lighting of Hanukkah candles in Rostov-on-Don in Russia on Dec. 25, 2015


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