Imagine Peace Tower

The Imagine Peace Tower is a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near , . Installed in 2007, it consists of a tall tower of light, projected from a white stone monument that has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: memorial to John Lennon near Reykjavík
  • Inscription: “The Imagine Peace Tower (Icelandic: Friðarsúlan, meaning ‘the peace column’) is a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland.”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Viðeyjarkirkja and Viðeyjarstofa.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 290 metres east of Imagine Peace Tower.

Building
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is a building, which is situated 310 metres east of Imagine Peace Tower.

Museum
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Höfði is a house in , , built in 1909, and best known as the location for the 1986 Reykjavík Summit meeting of President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. is situated 3 km southwest of Imagine Peace Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Reykjavík and Kópavogur.

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is the capital of and largest city in and with an urban area population of around 233,000, it is the home to two-thirds of Iceland's population.

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is a town in that is the country's second-largest municipality by population. It lies immediately south of and is part of the .

Town
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Mosfellsbær is a town in south-west , 12 kilometres east of the country's capital, . The coat of arms of the municipality is a tightly-knotted triquetra, a symbol often used in Celtic knotwork and strongly associated with the Celtic nations. is situated 8 km east of Imagine Peace Tower.

Imagine Peace Tower

Latitude
64.16328° or 64° 9′ 48″ north
Longitude
-21.85927° or 21° 51′ 33″ west
Open location code
99PW547R+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1672263371
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q116484
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Imagine Peace Tower” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Arabic: “برج تخيل السلام”
  • Arabic: “برج تخيل سلام”
  • Arabic: “تخيل سلام”
  • Arabic: “منارة احلم سلام”
  • Arabic: “منارة تخيل السلام”
  • Arabic: “منارة تخيل سلام”
  • Armenian: “Խաղաղության աշտարակ”
  • Basque: “Bakea Irudikatu dorrea”
  • Bengali: “ইমাজিন পিস টাওয়ার”
  • Bengali: “ইম্যাজিন পিস টাওয়ার”
  • Catalan: “Torre Imagina la Pau”
  • Cebuano: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Chinese: “想像和平塔”
  • Chinese: “想象世界和平塔”
  • Chinese: “想象和平塔”
  • Czech: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Esperanto: “Turo “Imagu Pacon””
  • French: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • French: “tour Imagine Peace”
  • French: “Tour Imagine Peace”
  • Georgian: “კოშკი წარმოიდგინეთ მშვიდობა”
  • Georgian: “წარმოიდგინეთ მშვიდობა”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל Imagine Peace”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל השלום Imagine”
  • Icelandic: “Friðarsúlan”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Bayangkan Perdamaian”
  • Italian: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Japanese: “イマジン・ピース・タワー”
  • Japanese: “イマジン・ピースタワー”
  • Japanese: “イマジンピース・タワー”
  • Japanese: “イマジンピースタワー”
  • Korean: “이매진 피스 타워”
  • Latvian: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Luz ‘Imagine a Paz’”
  • Portuguese: “Torre Imagine a Paz”
  • Russian: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Slovak: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Spanish: “Torre imagina la paz”
  • Spanish: “Torre Imagina la Paz”
  • Swedish: “Imagine Peace Tower, Videy Island”
  • Swedish: “Imagine Peace Tower”
  • Ukrainian: “Уяви мир”

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