Sarah Roberts Labyrinth
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
In Roslindale, Boston's Sarah Roberts labyrinth is a neighborhood-built permanent path in a Boston park, named and maintained by the community around it. It is the small, tended end of the civic labyrinth world.
In Roslindale, Boston's Sarah Roberts labyrinth is a neighborhood-built permanent path in a Boston park, named and maintained by the community around it. It is the small, tended end of the civic labyrinth world. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval 6-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.
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