Sacred Places
Reflection and Meditation Garden at Fort Payne Walking Park, in partnership with CFNEA
Three circular paths: birth, life's journey, rebirth.
WHERE
Fort Payne, AL
SETTING
Neighborhood
PARTNER INSTITUTION
The Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama
Visit
Where it is
107 5th Street Northwest, Fort Payne, AL
What happens here
Visitors walk the three circular paths, with the sights of lush green trees and the sounds of nearby birds adding to the serenity. All the senses are engaged toward the garden's purposeful goal of reflection and meditation for all.
HOW IT CAME TO BE
The visitor is the most important element.
01
The Need
The Fort Payne Walking Park needed a place of reflection within it.
02
The Vision
As Tim Harris, director of Fort Payne Alabama Mainstreet, describes it, one of the Life Garden's focuses is providing a place of reflection that defines the person entering as the most important element in the whole composition of the space. Everything else is arranged around that.
03
The Transformation
Three circular paths now run through the garden, representing the three stages of life: birth, life's journey, and rebirth. The design is built so no sensory detail is lost.
WHO TENDS IT
Connie Fuller
Firesoul, Reflection and Meditation Garden at Fort Payne Walking Park, in partnership with CFNEA
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Tim Harris
Firesoul, Reflection and Meditation Garden at Fort Payne Walking Park, in partnership with CFNEA
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Fred Smith
Firesoul, Reflection and Meditation Garden at Fort Payne Walking Park, in partnership with CFNEA
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HEAR FROM THE VISITORS
From the Little Yellow Journal
Despite knowing they won't be here for long.
They still choose to live
their best and brightest lives
– Sunflowers
