The Desert Room is available for booking by LSE faith society officers and LSE staff. Currently it is used for a wide range of activities including:
• Faith Society meetings
• Devotion and socials
• Wellbeing programmes, including yoga, mindfulness and tai chi
• Devotion and worship
• Faith Centre programmes and events, including our Beecken Faith & Leadership programme
If you're a student and you'd like to book the space, please do so through the SU room booking system.
For staff members or any other questions, please email faithcentre@lse.ac.uk.
About
The theme of the LSE Faith Centre is the “sacred desert”. The desert is a place of spiritual significance in nearly all the world religions.
From the ancient Hindu traditions of the Thar Desert of Rajasthan to the origins of the Judeo-Christian tradition at Sinai, the desert has been experienced as a place of profound religious intensity. Crucially, the nomadic tradition of the desert reflects the need for space to be shared and not colonised. But the desert has also been a place of interreligious encounter, not least through commerce along trade routes.
So our “sacred desert” is a place of stillness for all people, a place where different religious groups can “set up camp” for a while, but also a place for all to encounter people of other faiths, to hear their stories, to share hospitality and to converse about the issues of the day.