{"id":1612,"date":"2024-03-08T19:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2024-03-08T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:28:41","slug":"london-world-peace-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/london-world-peace-flame\/","title":{"rendered":"London World Peace Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">This Peace Pathway at Kingsley Hall arose from the desire of people from many different faiths and cultural traditions to create an artistic focus for peace within London.<\/span> <span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">It is here for everyone to enjoy and expresses our universal yearning for peace and harmony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">A stone or earth from every country in the world has been placed under the Path.<\/span> <span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Much of this has come from places of special significance, including Mecca, Mount Arafat, Assisi, Vrindavan, Jerusalem and Machu Picchu. Under the whole structure there is sand from Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s ashram in Ahmedabad, India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">At the centre you will see a solar-powered World Peace Flame light, symbolising the healing light of peace shining onto the whole world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Notice the words for peace in many different languages carved into the outer circle of the Pathway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/GandhiKH-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/GandhiKH-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/GandhiKH-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/GandhiKH-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/GandhiKH.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-926 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/KingsleyHall-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"177\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-927 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/pp-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/pp-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/pp-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/pp-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/pp.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London World Peace Flame is a solar-powered light shining down onto a carved map of the world in the Peace Garden of KIngsley Hall Community Centre in East London, which was established in 1928 by the Lester sisters and is where Mahatma Gandhi stayed in 1931. The Peace Flame was inaugurated on 2nd October 2018, on the International Day of Non-violence and the anniversary of Gandhi&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpeaceflame.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}