Three years after nine members of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, were violently gunned down by an avowed white racist during a Bible study in June 2017, church officials announced Sunday that they will be honored with a memorial.
Plans for the permanent tribute to the late parishioners designed by Michael Arad, the architect behind the 9/11 Memorial in New York, were unveiled by officials at the church on Sunday evening, The Associated Press reported. Sections of the church’s parking lot will be transformed into a stone memorial courtyard and a grassy survivors’ garden The New York Times said.
Arad, who is a New York-based partner with Handel Architects, told The New York Times that the memorial was “intended to promote a sense of community, that when you walk into this space, you become a member of this congregation.”
The memorial will consist of a marble fountain with carvings of the victims’ names flanked by curved stone benches that rise above visitors’ heads “like sheltering wings,” the church said in a news release.
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