Labyrinth at Unity World Headquarters

At the Unity World Headquarters at Unity Village, the global home of the New Thought Unity movement, a permanent outdoor labyrinth sits on the campus grounds, walked by pilgrims to the movement's center and by the village's residents. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a medieval path loosely inspired by Chartres Cathedral; installed 2022.

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

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

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