Mohandas K. Gandhi, Bronze statue at Ferry Building in San Francisco, United States
Mohandas K. Gandhi is a 1988 bronze sculpture by Zlatko Paunov and Steven Lowe, standing 8 feet (2.4 m) tall on a block with a plaque, raised on two steps, in the plaza southeast of the San Francisco Ferry Building along the Embarcadero. The figure wears round glasses and holds a walking stick.
The bronze sculpture was made by Zlatko Paunov and Steven Lowe and given to San Francisco by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation. Mayor Art Agnos dedicated it on October 3, 1988. In 1990 the same sculptors unveiled a similar Gandhi statue in Kapiolani Park in Honolulu.
The statue stands beside the Ferry Building's weekly farmers' market, a fitting setting for Gandhi, who was a vegetarian. In 2010 the Organization for Minorities of India demanded its removal, calling Gandhi a racist. Visitors can see the round glasses and walking staff that are the sculpture's most-stolen and most-broken parts.
The statue sits at the corner of Market Street and The Embarcadero, right next to the weekly farmers market near the Ferry Building. The spot is easy to reach on foot and sits along a popular waterfront walkway.
The statue's round eyeglasses are the item most often stolen, and its walking staff has been broken several times. In 2010 the Organization for Minorities of India demanded the sculpture's removal, calling Gandhi a racist. The same sculptors, Zlatko Paunov and Steven Lowe, made a similar Gandhi statue unveiled in Honolulu's Kapiolani Park in 1990.
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