Zagreb City Council approved a proposal on Thursday to build a monument dedicated to the late Indian statesman and civil rights icon Mahatma Gandhi, to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.

The larger-than-life monument, more than two metres tall, is set to be built on a promenade in a park along the Bundek Lake in Zagreb’s south side of town, across the Sava river.

According to state agency Hina, the monument will feature a bronze bust of Gandhi made by the famous Indian sculptor Ram Vanji Sutar, which will be donated by the embassy of India.

The report said that the bust is set to be placed on a stone pedestal, with the quote “There is no way to peace, peace is the way” engraved on it.

The adage, originally coined by the American pacifist and protestant minister A. J. Muste in a newspaper article in the late 1960s, is today often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi was born and raised in India before studying law in London. As a practicing lawyer in South Africa, he became a civil rights activist and later rose to prominence as a key figure in India’s struggle for independence from the British Empire during the early half of the 20th century.

He was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist, only months after the violent partition of India which saw the dissolution of what was then the British Raj into modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Today he is revered in India as Father of the Nation, and regarded as a symbol of pacifism throughout the world.