Labyrinth at Mile Hi Church

At Mile Hi Church in Lakewood, one of the country's largest New Thought congregations, a permanent outdoor labyrinth sits on the campus grounds and is walked in the congregation's programs and by the public. New Thought embraced the labyrinth revival early, and this is one of its flagship installations: the Locator's record calls it a Reconciliation labyrinth with two separate entrances, installed May 2021.

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

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