Labyrinth at Lower Arroyo Park
Pasadena, California, United States
In Pasadena's Lower Arroyo, along the stream corridor the city has kept wild beneath its old-money estates, a community-built labyrinth sits in the park's open ground. It belongs to the arroyo's long history as Pasadena's contemplative edge, walked by neighbors rather than designed by committees.
In Pasadena's Lower Arroyo, along the stream corridor the city has kept wild beneath its old-money estates, a community-built labyrinth sits in the park's open ground. It belongs to the arroyo's long history as Pasadena's contemplative edge, walked by neighbors rather than designed by committees. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Contemporary 3-circuit.
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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