Taiz

Where is Taiz?

Taize is a small village in Southern France

What happens in Taize?

The Taiz Community in France has become one of the great pilgrimage
centres in Europe. It is particularly known for its meditative style of music
and worship and attracts 1000s of mostly young people strong devotion
to peace and justice through prayer and meditation.

Today Taiz is one of the world's most important sites of Christian

pilgrimage. Each year tens of thousands of young pilgrims flock to the
small village of Taiz in central France to share in the community's way of
life.

Prayer and silence are at the heart of the Taiz experience. Young people
from every corner of the globe are encouraged to live out the Christian
gospel in a spirit of joy, simplicity and reconciliation.

Ecumenism (a movement promoting Christian unity among Churches) is

the key to Taiz's appeal, making it a magnet for people of many different
cultures and traditions.

Brother Roger (Roger Louis Schutz-Marsauche) set up the Taiz community after
cycling to the Burgundy region of France from his home in Geneva.

He raised money to buy a disused house and outbuildings where he began to

offer shelter to political refugees, including Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.