Peace Fountain in the courtyard of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue - a strange but interesting building. If tourists come to explore the cathedral, it is useful to examine and fountain - it is the right of the entrance to the temple.

The fountain was designed by the famous American sculptor Greg Wyatt at the invitation of the parish of St. John the Theologian, and installed in 1985. Greg Wyatt works in an unusual manner and claims that it is based on a philosophy of spiritual realism. Usually sculptures Wyatt merge realism and abstraction. The Fountain of the world they have merged very effective way.

The bronze sculpture group, as the inscription on the explanatory label, celebrates the triumph of good over evil and is the warring parties - the violence and harmony, light and darkness, life and death, God reconciles the world to him. Welcome embodies Archangel Michael - muscular figure rasprostёrshaya huge wings, pressed to his chest stylized head of a giraffe, one of the most peaceful animals. Evil is defeated - it clearly says not so much lie at the feet of Michael's body of Satan, as his head separated from the body and hanging on long veins that cuts giant crab claws.

Already one claw enough to the fountain was considered interesting, but Wyatt did not stop there. His work is filled with a variety of other characters in different poses galloping giraffes (there are nine), the Moon and sleep happily smiling sun (they are large and flat) recline next to the lion and the lamb, and the base of the fountain has the shape of the DNA double helix. But that's not all: the sculpture arranged around the smaller, depicting Gandhi, Socrates, John Lennon, Einstein Noah's Ark, and some demons and monsters.

The amazing variety of looks surprisingly harmonious. While there is debate about what meaning the author has invested in his work - a Christian or a pagan still, local children love to walk in the garden and play around the sculptures. But to enjoy the running water they do not succeed - although it is expected that it will fall by four stages, causing the idea of ​​a primordial chaos, of the fountain of the world does not happen ever.