World Peace Monument
- Jerusalem, Israel
The Peace Monument
On a hill in Jerusalem, a white cylinder uncoils its spiralling inscriptions, which gradually fade into the sky… This ecumenical monument interweaves sacred Christian, Islamic and Hebrew texts on the same humanist themes in a bid to more fully symbolise the real possibility of future harmony.
Inside the cylinder, a pool reflects the sacred texts. A lens in the middle of the circle of water lets the sun in at a single point, in a sort of ‘camera obscura’, a large room where, in the darkness, the sacred texts appear, rising up to the sky…
Jean Nouvel