It is generally accepted that harems are a thing of the past and only available to wealthy people.
An Indian man decided to break the established stereotype and got married 39 times. All his wives live with him and the man has 94 children of his own.
Zion Chan's family from India is recognized as the largest in the world. It has 181 members.
Chan has 39 wives, 94 biological children, and several more women came to his close-knit family with children from previous marriages, which increased the number of relatives by another 14 people.
The man then had 33 grandchildren, bringing the family's total to 181.
They all live in the Indian state of Mizoram, in the village of Baktwang, in their own four-story building with 100 rooms.
The house only looks like a mansion on the outside, but in fact it is a dormitory, in which the dining room is more like a factory canteen.
To feed the entire family and prepare dinner, the head of the family will allocate 100 kg of rice, 50 kg of potatoes and up to 30 chickens.
The man arranges for his wives to live in the dormitory in an interesting way.
The younger the woman, the closer her room is to Chan's bedroom.
The most important wife in the family is 71-year-old Zatianji. She is responsible for discipline and order in the house, upbringing and education of children.
The youngest wife is 27 years old.
Polygamist Chan will soon turn 70 years old, and he is already looking for several new wives, whom he is ready to send to any point on the globe.
It is worth noting that the man is the head of a sect that allows polygamy and calls himself a “man of God.”
