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Peace Pagoda

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Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Peace Pagoda
Phone:
+44 20 8871 7530

Hours:
Sunday12am - 12am
Monday12am - 12am
Tuesday12am - 12am
Wednesday12am - 12am
Thursday12am - 12am
Friday12am - 12am
Saturday12am - 12am


A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace. Most peace pagodas built since World War II have been built under the guidance of Nichidatsu Fujii , a Buddhist monk from Japan and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. Fujii was greatly inspired by his meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 and decided to devote his life to promoting non-violence. In 1947, he began constructing Peace Pagodas as shrines to world peace.Peace Pagodas were built as a symbol of peace in Japanese cities including Hiroshima and Nagasaki where the atomic bombs took the lives of over 150,000 people, almost all of whom were civilian, at the end of World War II. By 2000, eighty Peace Pagodas had been built around the world in Europe, Asia, and the United States. The Nipponzan-Myōhōji monks of the New England Peace Pagoda were awarded the Courage of Conscience award June 5, 1998 in Sherborn, Massachusetts.
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