| The growing popularity of crystal chandeliers has | | | | Kroonluchterzaal, I can't say it, no matter how |
| really take its toll and from its popularity in which | | | | hard I try. The chandelier is made of Venetian |
| have reached all over the world. Let me give you | | | | crystal, 22,000 pieces of it to be exact, and |
| the Top 7 Largest Crystal Chandeliers in the | | | | includes 2,700 lamps creating light for the crystals |
| world. You want to know the prices of it? Well | | | | to refract. It has a diameter of 8.5m and a height |
| even I can't compute, so without further a do | | | | of 6.5m. The entire structure weighs 6 tons. Well |
| here it is: | | | | how about that. |
| Going at the 7th place is the Rialto Square | | | | #3 on our hit list is at the Palais Garnier Opera, |
| Theatre in Joliet, Illinois. | | | | France. The chandelier in the Palais Garnier in |
| The smallest-biggest chandelier in the world, the | | | | France, a country known for its fascination with |
| chandelier in the Theatre is known as the | | | | things beautiful, objets d'art, also weighs 6 tons. It |
| 'Duchess' took two years for 'her' to be born, and | | | | is in a fitting setting. The building, which is home to |
| cost one and a half million dollars before her | | | | France's traditional operas, is very ornate, |
| birthday. That was one and a half million, back in | | | | decorated with marble friezes, columns, and |
| the 1920s, when you could buy a house for a | | | | statues around its interior. Napoleon began its |
| person's weekly wage nowadays. Now let me see | | | | construction in 1858, and it stands even today. |
| you do the math on that one. | | | | The huge chandelier is actually in the auditorium |
| #6 on the list can be found at The Jai Vilas Palace | | | | where the operas are played out. So when you |
| houses two chandeliers, each one weighing 3.5 | | | | watch operas in the theater for sure you'll be |
| tons. To test whether the roof would take their | | | | fascinated with its chandelier as well. |
| weight, ten elephants were used to stamp on the | | | | The #2 rank is at the Kocatepe Mosque in |
| roof, to make sure, now that is what I call | | | | Ankara, Turkey. God has always been the source |
| durability, don't you think? The palace was | | | | of man's greatest inspiration to create so many |
| designed by a British colonel during colonial times in | | | | beautiful cathedrals and churches have been |
| India, and has survived until now. The gold paint | | | | designed and created for religious purposes and |
| used in the room the chandeliers are in, is | | | | the chandelier at the Kocatepe Mosque, in Ankara, |
| estimated to weigh 58 kg. Now how much would | | | | Turkey, holds to that tradition. It weighs 7.5 tons, |
| that be? | | | | is 5.5m in diameter, and has 32 sidelights and 4 |
| At Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul, Turkey The #5 | | | | corner lights. The mosque is used by around |
| ranked largest Crystal Chandelier is found. A 4.5 | | | | 80,000 worshippers, and the building itself, along |
| ton chandelier resides at the Dolmabahce palace in | | | | with the chandelier, is considered one of the great |
| Istanbul. It contains 750 lamps, and is made of | | | | triumphs of Turkish architecture. |
| Bohemian crystal. It was a gift from Queen | | | | The undisputed #1 rank goes to Sultan Qaboos |
| Victoria of Britain, to the Ottoman Empire in the | | | | Grand Mosque, Oman. |
| late 1800s. The building also houses the largest | | | | The largest chandelier known in the world, and |
| collection of Bohemian and Baccarat chandeliers in | | | | weighs 8.5 tons. The actual chandelier is made of |
| the world, with even the staircases being made | | | | Swarovski crystal, has gold-plated metalwork, and |
| of Baccarat crystal, imagine that much royalty in | | | | hangs down for a length of 14 metres. It has a |
| one home. | | | | diameter of 8m to go with this height, making the |
| In Knokke Casino in Belgium us where the #4 | | | | size of the chandelier comparable to a five-storey |
| ranked resides. Well Knokke is a seaside resort | | | | apartment block or block of flats. It contains |
| close to the Dutch border, and is home to one of | | | | staircases and platforms necessary for |
| Belgium's ten casinos, and also one of the world's | | | | maintenance, and has 1,200 dimmable halogen |
| seven biggest chandeliers. The Belgians are so | | | | lamps triggered by more than 36 switching |
| fascinated by their chandeliers that they even | | | | circuits. Well talk about high maintenance there. |
| have a word for 'chandelier room' which is | | | | |