Panorama showing the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park in London. Picture taken in July 2009.

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The London Peace Pagoda stands overlooking the River Thames in Battersea Park, about half way along the Thames Path between Albert Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. Like all such Peace Pagoda's around the world, it is a Buddhist stupa built as a focus for people of all races and creeds, to inspire unity in the search for world peace. The Peace Pagoda in London was built in 1985. Every morning a monk performs various rituals at the pagoda at sunrise. It is now a well known landmark and popular attraction within the park.

There are around 80 peace pagodas around the world, and most were built by Nichidatsu Fujii (1885-1985), a Buddhist monk from Japan who founded the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. More about them can be found in this Wikipedia article

The story of the London Pagoda originates from Milton Keynes in the 1970's when one of the town planners saw a Peace Pagoda in Sri Lanka. He proposed the idea to Milton Keynes who took it up and installed one. Subsequently, when the GLC was looking for ideas to celebrate the Year of Peace a tape recording the opening of the Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda was handed over and they selected this site for one in London.

Other highlights of Battersea Park:

• Boating on the Boating Lake
• Contemporary art in the free Pump House Gallery
• Battersea Park Childrens Zoo
• Winter Gardens
• Festival Gardens
• eating in the La Gondola al Parco by the lake
• River Thames promenade between Albert Bridge and Chelsea Bridge
• Various open sports areas, tennis courts
• Special events in the Millennium Events Arena

Battersea Park Office
Tel: (020) 8871 7530

Bus: Various to Battersea Park Road, Chelsea Embankment and Queenstown Road.
Car: There are three pay and display car parks within Battersea Park.
Ferry: Cadogan Pier
Tube: Pimlico (Victoria Line)
Train: Battersea Park Railway Station, Queenstown Road Battersea Rail Station