Old Swedes' Labyrinth was dedicated Sunday, September 9, 2001 by our Rector, The Rev. Anne Bonnyman, just two days before the tragic events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The Labyrinth at Old Swedes is painted on the forty-two foot diameter concrete stage in the amphitheater parking lot. It is permanent and open to the public at all times.

Trinity Episcopal Parish has established the meditative labyrinth on the stage of the amphitheater outside historic Old Swedes Church at Sixth and Church Sts. downtown Wilmington.

According to Max Dooley, project coordinator, walking the labyrinth, which is a practice dating from the 12th Century, inspires spiritual thoughts about the path to salvation. Walking the path, which is intricate but has no dead endshas "a wonderful calming effect to cleanse your mind and free your spirit, even in the midst of the distractions

of its urban setting," he said. Several area churches have adopted the idea, but Old Swedes decided to put its labyrinth in a location easily accessable to the public during daylight hours, in the amphitheater parking lot off Church Street.

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