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The Living Chapel

Care for Our Common Home

A project to greening the planet that promotes the principles of the UN's 2030 Agenda and the Laudato Si' Encyclical

The Living Chapel holds the sacrality of life at its core.

The Living Chapel embodies a call to hope: a hope for a world in which the sacrality…. peaceful life.

In partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Plant for the Planet, and the Global Catholic Climate Movement, the Living Chapel will join the UN Environmental Programme’s One Trillion Ttree Movement, inspiring the public to reconnect with nature and providing a vehicle for intercultural and interfaith collaboration to restore our common home through the creation of Laudato Si' Gardens and Living Sacred Spaces.

The First Living Chapel - Story of its Creation

Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Living Chapel synthesizes natural, artistic, and recycled elements to create a sacred space of serene harmony.new Laudato Si' Gardens and Living Sacred Spaces.

The Inspiration

The Design

The Future

The Living Chapel inspires and equips people to participate in the conservation and restoration of our common home in a concrete, scientifically-guided way: through the planting of trees.

The Living Chapel is truly living in an expansive sense, as it incubates thousands of trees and inspires the planting of millions more in ecologically needy areas and in new Laudato Si’ gardens around the world. In time, each of these trees will drop their own seeds, resulting, over decades, centuries, and beyond, in entire forests and potentially billions of trees all growing as a result of the Living Chapel.

Biodiversity

Our mission is to unite all faiths around the common value of safeguarding our planet by inspiring, educating and encouraging the world population to live in harmony with the natural world and to actively take part in the care of our common home

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Harmony

The Living Chapel encompasses concepts of humanity in harmony between music, art, architecture, science and technology. It is a vertical garden that includes discarded oil barrels transformed into musical instruments played by water drops.

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Harmony

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Unity

The Living Chapel is a nursery that will contribute to restoring the environment in urban areas by creating new green gardens and little forests. Our programme aims to create positive environmental impacts on a large scale by facilitating the participation of community groups in concrete environmental actions with measurable outcomes.

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239,845

tons of captured CO2

1,827

hectares of restored land

1,287,479

trees planted

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John Cameron

Director

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