diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5c1b6945..008d5043 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 - Fixed a bug that would result in `list.unique` having quadratic runtime.
 - Fixed the implementation of `list.key_set` to be tail recursive.
 - The `pop` and `pop_map` functions in the `list` module have been deprecated.
+- The `uri` module gains the `empty` value, representing an empty URI which 
+  equivalent to `""`.
 
 ## v0.53.0 - 2025-01-23
 
diff --git a/src/gleam/uri.gleam b/src/gleam/uri.gleam
index b64a1c09..5b6565cc 100644
--- a/src/gleam/uri.gleam
+++ b/src/gleam/uri.gleam
@@ -28,6 +28,33 @@ pub type Uri {
   )
 }
 
+/// Constant representing an empty URI, equivalent to "".
+///
+/// ## Examples
+///
+/// ```gleam
+/// let uri = Uri(..empty, scheme: Some("https"), host: Some("example.com"))
+/// // -> Uri(
+/// //   scheme: Some("https"),
+/// //   userinfo: None,
+/// //   host: Some("example.com"),
+/// //   port: None,
+/// //   path: "",
+/// //   query: None,
+/// //   fragment: None,
+/// // )
+/// ```
+///
+pub const empty = Uri(
+  scheme: None,
+  userinfo: None,
+  host: None,
+  port: None,
+  path: "",
+  query: None,
+  fragment: None,
+)
+
 /// Parses a compliant URI string into the `Uri` Type.
 /// If the string is not a valid URI string then an error is returned.
 ///
@@ -58,18 +85,7 @@ pub fn parse(uri_string: String) -> Result(Uri, Nil) {
   // TODO: This is not perfect and will be more permissive than its Erlang
   // counterpart, ideally we want to replicate Erlang's implementation on the js
   // target as well.
-  let default_pieces =
-    Uri(
-      scheme: None,
-      userinfo: None,
-      host: None,
-      port: None,
-      path: "",
-      query: None,
-      fragment: None,
-    )
-
-  parse_scheme_loop(uri_string, uri_string, default_pieces, 0)
+  parse_scheme_loop(uri_string, uri_string, empty, 0)
 }
 
 fn parse_scheme_loop(
@@ -620,9 +636,9 @@ fn remove_dot_segments_loop(
 /// ## Examples
 ///
 /// ```gleam
-/// let uri = Uri(Some("http"), None, Some("example.com"), ...)
+/// let uri = Uri(..empty, scheme: Some("https"), host: Some("example.com"))
 /// to_string(uri)
-/// // -> "http://example.com"
+/// // -> "https://example.com"
 /// ```
 ///
 pub fn to_string(uri: Uri) -> String {
@@ -664,9 +680,9 @@ pub fn to_string(uri: Uri) -> String {
 /// ## Examples
 ///
 /// ```gleam
-/// let assert Ok(uri) = parse("http://example.com/path?foo#bar")
+/// let assert Ok(uri) = parse("https://example.com/path?foo#bar")
 /// origin(uri)
-/// // -> Ok("http://example.com")
+/// // -> Ok("https://example.com")
 /// ```
 ///
 pub fn origin(uri: Uri) -> Result(String, Nil) {