The Labyrinth @ The Creek
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
In West Philadelphia, the community-built Labyrinth @ The Creek occupies neighborhood open ground as a resident project, painted and planted and repaired by the people who walk it. It is the grassroots end of the revival: no institution, a path.
In West Philadelphia, the community-built Labyrinth @ The Creek occupies neighborhood open ground as a resident project, painted and planted and repaired by the people who walk it. It is the grassroots end of the revival: no institution, a path. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a contemporary dual-entry design; installed October 28, 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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