Sacred Places
Garden of the Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore Emmanuel Monastery
A bench that outlived the place it was made for.
WHERE
Lutherville-Timonium, MD
SETTING
Neighborhood
PARTNER INSTITUTION
Benedictine Sisters of Baltimore
Visit
Where it is
2229 W Joppa Rd, Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093
What happens here
The site is used by the monastery community and by Asylee Women Enterprise members, as well as the surrounding community and neighbours down Joppa Road. That mix of visitors is itself the point: for the Benedictines community is central to ministry, and their ministries of service and hospitality flow from strengthening a sense of togetherness.
HOW IT CAME TO BE
The bench needed somewhere to go.
01
The Need
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma closed, and its Sacred Place bench had nowhere to be.
02
The Vision
The bench found a new home here, in a community whose ministry is built on hospitality.
03
The Transformation
The Sacred Place sits under a tree adjacent to the labyrinth in the Sisters' garden, with a view of the slope beyond.
