Labyrinth at St. Ann's Episcopal Church
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
At St. Ann's Episcopal Church in East Nashville, a permanent outdoor labyrinth is part of the parish grounds, walked by the congregation and neighbors.
At St. Ann's Episcopal Church in East Nashville, a permanent outdoor labyrinth is part of the parish grounds, walked by the congregation and neighbors. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Santa Rosa design, artistically faux-painted to resemble river stones; installed summer 2002.
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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