Meditationslunden, Place of prayer and meditation on a hill in Stockholm, Sweden
Meditationslunden is a hill in Stockholm used as a place of prayer and meditation. The site is simple in design, with trees, grass, and open sky, and it is open to the public.
Meditationslunden was not part of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz's 1915 competition entry for Skogskyrkogården; the surrounding landscape was, and the jury praised the use of the gravel pits for its "natural simplicity and ingeniously effective design". The square clearing, 20 by 20 metres and enclosed by a granite wall about one metre high, was built on the hilltop as the last remnant of a proposed ceremonial courtyard around Tallum's main chapel. It was completed together with the granite cross and the landscape for the 1940 inauguration of Skogskrematoriet.
The square is reached on foot from the main entrance on Sockenvägen, west of the Woodland Crematorium, and Sju brunnars väg runs straight across it. The low granite wall around the 20 x 20 metre space is about one metre high, with a planting box along its top. Do not confuse it with the Woodland Cemetery memorial grove, which lies about a hundred metres further north and was consecrated in 1961.
The square is 20 by 20 metres, enclosed by a wall of cut granite about one metre high, and its top was built as a planting box. Twelve umbrella pines stand around it. The spot is the last remnant of a ceremonial courtyard once proposed around the main chapel at Tallum.
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