Meditation garden to open at Paceville's Millennium Chapel

Amid the gentlemen’s clubs, massage parlours and bars in Paceville, a new, tranquil spot offers people the possibility of sitting down and meditating, completely cut off from the hubbub just metres away.

This place of tranquillity – in the form of a meditation garden – has just been added to the Millennium Chapel and will open its doors towards the end of August.
Since the idea of the garden was first reported in the Times of Malta two years ago, things in Paceville have taken a more unruly turn and the need for such peaceful spaces has grown, Millennium Chapel director Fr Hilary Tagliaferro says.
The Word Meditation Garden was designed by Richard England and his assistant, Duncan Polidano, the two architects behind the chapel itself.
The space, which will be open to people of different faiths, is set on top of the two rooftops of the Wishing Others Well (Wow) centre. It is split on two levels inspired by Casiciaco and Hippo, two gardens in Italy and Algeria that played an important role in the conversion of St Augustine and in forming his first religious community.

A representation of the Tree of Knowledge by Noel Attard stands in the centre of the Casiciaco garden, while the...