132nd Square Park Labyrinth
Kirkland, Washington, United States
In Kirkland's 132nd Square Park, a city park labyrinth gives the Eastside's neighborhoods a permanent public walk. It is the civic-park branch of the revival, maintained by the parks department and used without ceremony or fee.
In Kirkland's 132nd Square Park, a city park labyrinth gives the Eastside's neighborhoods a permanent public walk. It is the civic-park branch of the revival, maintained by the parks department and used without ceremony or fee. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as installed 2023.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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