Labyrinth at Bloomfield Presbyterian Church on the Green

On the green of Bloomfield, New Jersey, around a Presbyterian congregation gathered since 1794, a permanent outdoor labyrinth occupies the churchyard lawn where generations of parish events have run. The setting is the old New England-pattern village green transplanted to the suburbs, and the walk adds a contemplative layer to it. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Medieval Chartres replica; installed June 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.

Visiting

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