Bahá'í World Centre

The administrative and spiritual world center of the Baha'i ( Bahai World Centre ) is located in Haifa, Israel. In addition to the Shrine of the Bab is located on Mount Carmel, the House of Justice, the International Teaching Centre, the International Archives and the Center for the Study of Sacred Texts.

At the Baha'i World Centre is a variety of sacred sites of the Baha'i. These include the shrines, where the remains of the Bab, Baha'u'llah, Abdul- Baha and their immediate family are kept. This also includes the homes in which the family of Baha'u'llah lived during their exile or that are particularly related to the faith events. Many of these buildings, monuments and shrines are located in an elaborately landscaped gardens on Mount Carmel, and are open in addition to Baha'i pilgrims, visitors from all over the world.

Mount Carmel

The Mount Carmel is locate in the history of religion in various sources. For example, the Old Testament is the book of Isaiah prophesied that it was the " mountain of the Lord ," to which " all nations will flock here ." Baha'u'llah has four visits to Haifa and pitched his tent on Mount Carmel. During one of these visits he showed Abdul- Baha, the point at which the tomb of the Bab to be built. Another time he wrote the so-called " panel of Mount Carmel ", in which the meaning of this mountain is explained for the future Baha'i community.

Shrine of the Bab

This mausoleum holds the remains of the Bab and is located at the place that Baha'u'llah chose yourself with a stay in Haifa. Abdul- Baha came to the task of constructing this building, the remains of the Bab after 60 years of wandering from Tehran / Iran to the holy mountain to bring Carmel / Israel, and bury them. Here also is the tomb of Abdul- Baha to be relocated from time to time when an appropriate shrine was erected for him.

Holy Places in Haifa and Akko

Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh

Here are the remains of Bahá'u'lláh. In the self- understanding of the Bahai this place is distinguished by the fact that here, " the holiest dust the earth ever received in her lap ," is buried according to Shoghi Effendi. Baha'u'llah was buried in the northernmost room in the house of his son Siyyid 'Ali Afnan on the day of his passing away on May 29, 1892 shortly after sunset. This room is a separate covered access was later built. Every day a number of Baha'is who visit mostly as part of their pilgrimage the holy place, here to satisfy prayers and meditations. This place is also of great importance for all Baha'is of the world because he speak daily as " Qiblih " the direction for the obligatory prayers, the Baha'is are stopped, and the funeral prayer pretending.

Garden of Ridvan

This small green island in the middle of a river was of Baha'u'llah as the Garden of Ridvan (Arabic: "Paradise" ) and is not to be confused with the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad where Bahá'u'lláh 1863 proclaimed his mission. Here Baha'u'llah could leave in Acre for the first time Gefängnisumfriedungen and experience nature after nearly a decade in prison. Until then, his physical movements had only been to continually in his bedroom on and go off.

Cottage Bahji

The villa Bahji located on a hill, which lies in an area formerly known as Al- Bahja (Arabic: " City of Joy" ) was known. For this former summer palace of a wealthy merchant named Udi Khammar, who originally owned the eastern half of the house Abbud, fled to an epidemic owners. 1879, Abdul- Baha, this country house and it became the residence of a large part of his family. Different rooms of this house are for the Baha'is of particular historical significance.

House of Abud

In the divided into two areas building which was known as the "House Abud ," Baha'u'llah lived a total of nearly seven years. It was far too small for the number of family members Baha'u'llah building as places 13 people had to live in one room. Despite the adverse conditions was here in 1873 the Holy Book of the Baha'i, the Kitab -i -Aqdas, revealed.

World Heritage

In July 2008, UNESCO has declared the holy sites because of their function as pilgrimage sites of the Baha'i World Heritage Site.