Labyrinth at the Church of Conscious Harmony

At the Church of Conscious Harmony, a contemplative Christian community in Austin, a permanent outdoor labyrinth anchors a garden built for silence. The congregation walks it as part of its centering-prayer practice, and the path is open to visitors at the church's published hours. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval 11-circuit path.

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.

Visiting

consciousharmony.org carries the site's own information and schedule.