Labyrinth at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
On the Emory University campus, a permanent labyrinth serves the university's chaplaincy and the Atlanta neighborhood around it, part of the dense campus-labyrinth culture of American private universities.
On the Emory University campus, a permanent labyrinth serves the university's chaplaincy and the Atlanta neighborhood around it, part of the dense campus-labyrinth culture of American private universities. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a simple three-circuit concentric labyrinth; installed 2006/7.
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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