Labyrinth at First Unity Spiritual Campus

At the First Unity Spiritual Campus in St. Petersburg, a New Thought community's grounds carry a permanent outdoor labyrinth, walked in the campus's programs and open to the city. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Classical 7-circuit path; recorded as installed in the 1980s, among the earliest of the American revival.

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

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