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
• Transformational programmes for LSE applicants, including our Beecken Faith & Leadership programme
• One-off speaker events and panel discussions
Please click here to make a booking request
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.