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Raum der Stille (Room of Silence) |
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Stralau
Walk
Cemetery
Hall. Tor
Franciscan
Monastery
St'
Michael's Church
Room
of Silence
Bo
Mun Sa Tempel
Buddhist
House
Lübars
Village Green
Russian
Church
Marienfelde
Green
Treptow
Crematorium
Church
Hohenzollernpl
Ahmadiyya
Mosque
Heerstraße
Cemetery
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The Berlin Raum der Stille was inspired by the meditation room in the UN building in New York. The Swedish General Secretary of the UN, Dag
Hammarskjöld, who was killed in an accident in 1961, set it up for his colleagues and
himself. The Berlin Room of Silence was opened in 1994 in the northern gate house of the Brandenburger Tor. It was prompted by calls from the East Berlin peace movement and taken up by people of different religions and cultural
backgrounds. The Brandenburger Tor, which is the weighty symbolic emblem of the
city, is a bottleneck for traffic and a magnet for tourists. It has won an unexpected counterpart in the Raum der Stille, where the noise of the city is filtered and
muffled. From the visitors’ books, one learns that there is overwhelming approval of this
room. Each person endows it with individual purpose and meaning, yet there seems to be an unspoken agreement that silence and peace are dependant on each
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Address: Nördliches Torhaus
of Brandenburger Tor
Bus, Tube, Tram: S 1, S 2, S 25 Unterden Linden;
Bus 100, 200, 248
Hours of opening: daily 11.00-18.00 (Summer), 11.00-17.00 (Winter), 11.00-16.00 (December)
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