Ireno Guerci
Auroville’s Hall of Peace, the
home of the Peace Table for Asia, was inaugurated on February 11th,
2014.
“It came to me in a dream, a dream
inspired by Sri Aurobindo, when I had the opportunity to buy two huge
logs of 300-year old Eastern Black Walnut,” wrote George Nakashima.
“The richly grained rare timber asked to be used in its full length
and width. The idea came to me to fashion from them Altars of Peace,
each measuring approximately 3.3 by 3.3 metres, to fully express the
texture, natural shape and free edges of the wood. The Altars, one
for each continent on earth, would be places for people from all
religions and faiths to gather together in prayer or silent
meditation.”
The project took off in 1984 and the
first Altar of Peace, the Altar for North America, was placed in the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. It was dedicated on New
Year’s Eve, 1986, in an impressive ceremony with a Concert for
Peace conducted by Leonard Bernstein and in ...
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