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The Universal Prayer Garden is located behind Our Lady of Hope Church in beautiful, rural Columbia County, NY. The Garden was a project nurtured by a small group of people to provide an outdoor prayer-sanctuary for all. It was carefully and beautifully designed and built by Landscape Artist Robbie Haldane. The Prayer Garden honors the Irish immigrants who founded and built the parish in the village of Copake Falls in the 1860s. The Garden is a circle of Irish-style dry-laid wall, with openings to the four directions, topped by a hawthorn hedge. Surrounding the walled garden are standing stones donated, blessed, and sent by elders of the Skatioke Indian Tribe. Within the Garden is a cobble-stone 7-circuit labyrinth.