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Looking down on the city from the shrine. Notice that the street in the middle has a median in the centre - more about that later. The Bahá’í World Center, the spiritual and administrative heart of the Bahá’í community, is located in the twin city of Haifa. It comprises the Shrines of Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as well as other holy sites in the surrounding area. Much of the international governance and coordination of the Bahá'í Faith occurs at the Bahá'í World Center. These include decisions that affect the religion on a global level, and the study and translation of the Bahá'í holy writings. The Universal House of Justice, representing the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith. This is the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel. This process to build the shrine took 10 years and was completed in 1909. The dome which is set on an 18-windowed drum is composed of 12,000 fish-scale tiles of 50 different shapes and sizes made in Portugal. The cylinder drum rises 11 meters (35ft) and rests on a circular steel-reinforced-concrete ring on the top of the octagon. The Shrine has 19 garden terraces that stretch one kilometer from the base of Mount Carmel to its summit, and both the terraces and the Shrine are illuminated at night. |
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| Author | Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada |
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