The London Peace Pagoda

Peace Pagoda is one of several dozen such objects built after World War II in Asia, Europe and the USA. The pagoda located in Battersea Park is a two-story structure of concrete and wood 33.5 m high. Inside there are four bronze and gold-plated Buddha statues. The London temple was opened a few months after the death of the originator of the Peace Pagoda.

The Japanese Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii (1885-1985) began building the Temples of Peace in 1947 after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each of the dozens of objects scattered around the world contains the relics of the Buddha, and its shape refers to his robes. The spire crowning the building was inspired by a travel stick and inverted beggar's bowls used by Buddhist monks.

The London Peace Pagoda was created thanks to the unpaid work of monks and nuns. It is the second, after built in 1985, pagoda in Milton Keynes, such a facility in Great Britain.