page_title: Imagine Peace Tower
section_title: Languages on the tower
hierarchical_section_title: Imagine Peace Tower / Languages on the tower
caption_attribution_description: Íslenska: Ein af 25 tungumálum sem skrifuð eru orðin „Hugsaðu þér frið“ á Friðarsúluna í Viðey. English: One of 25 languages that the words "Imagine Peace" is written on the Imagine Peace Tower in en:Iceland
context_page_description: The Imagine Peace Tower is a memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, located on Viðey Island in Kollafjörður Bay near Reykjavík, Iceland. 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. These words, and the name of the tower, are a reference to Lennon's campaign for peace, and his song "Imagine".
  The Tower consists of 15 searchlights with prisms that act as mirrors, reflecting the column of light vertically into the sky from a 10-metre wide wishing well. It often reaches cloudbase and indeed can be seen penetrating the cloud cover. On a clear night it appears to reach an altitude of at least 4000 m. The power for the lights is provided by Iceland's unique geo-thermal energy grid. It uses approximately 75 kW of power.
  Buried underneath the light tower are over 1 million written wishes that Ono gathered over the years in another project, called Wish Trees. Ono plans to have the tower lit every year from 9 October, Lennon's birthday, through 8 December, the date he was shot. Iceland was selected for the project because of its beauty and its eco-friendly use of geothermal energy.
context_section_description: The words on the tower are written in 24 world languages:
  An additional panel reads:
caption: Imagine Peace message.
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