Labyrinth at Seattle University
Seattle, Washington, United States
On the Seattle University campus, a Jesuit university whose grounds are walked by students and neighbors, a permanent labyrinth serves the campus ministry's contemplative program and anyone who passes. It is part of the campus-labyrinth branch of the revival, in a city dense with it.
On the Seattle University campus, a Jesuit university whose grounds are walked by students and neighbors, a permanent labyrinth serves the campus ministry's contemplative program and anyone who passes. It is part of the campus-labyrinth branch of the revival, in a city dense with it. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a medieval seven-circuit path; installed March 3, 2020.
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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