The Brick Testament: The Bible Retold With Legos (PHOTOS)

*See photos below*

The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible isn't at the Louvre, or the Prado, or the Met: It's on the web, and it's made up of Legos.

The Brick Testament features over 3,600 illustrations that retell more than 400 stories from The Bible.

The illustrations were conceived, created, and photographed by the Rev. Brendan Powell Smith (who is not a real Reverend and describes himself as "bigger than Jesus, slimmer than Buddha," as well as "highly presumptuous and extremely vain").

The project was started in 2001 and a book of Smith's photographs was released in 2003.

According to the Telegraph, the endeavor was a labor of love for Smith, who says:

I am not at all religious myself, but have a longstanding interest in religion, the Bible, and the study of ancient Christianity and Judaism, hence the nickname 'The Reverend.'

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Comments

[rcmfla]

04:01 AM on 10/13/2009

It looks like a Beatles and Stones reunion.

[Visvesvaran Subramanian]

03:10 PM on 10/12/2009

This is so ridiculously old.

(But completely awesome. :D)

[mick7191]

08:50 AM on 10/10/2009

Where's Mary Magdalene?

[BLBass]

08:05 AM on 10/09/2009

I didn't know they made surprised-eyed minifigs.

[LMPE]

11:32 PM on 10/08/2009

The fundamentalist Christians are going to complain that he didn't show humans co-existing with dinosaurs.

[jasper48]

09:53 AM on 10/12/2009

That'll be the 2.0 version. It's all about marketing, right!

[pinkibus]

10:45 PM on 10/08/2009

My name is Jesus and I approved these messages.

[Kyle1234]

10:44 PM on 10/08/2009

True. This is NOT new, but worth posting on here. I have one of the books!

[TankGirlz]

10:18 PM on 10/08/2009

bricktestament.com

[TankGirlz]

10:17 PM on 10/08/2009

Been around for years HuffPo!!!

Love it that it is on here now... the captions are the best

[CoconutLime]

06:58 PM on 10/08/2009

Very cool indeed.