Shrine of the Báb

The Shrine of the Bab is considered the symbol of the Israeli port city of Haifa. The tomb of the Bab, the founder of a religion of Babism, after the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh in the Western Galilee is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations of the Baha'is. The location of the shrine has been selected by Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i religion, during one of his stays in Haifa. From Abdul- Baha (1844-1921) just a plain basic structure of nine areas was first built. Shoghi Effendi commissioned the architect William Sutherland Maxwell - the wishes of Abdul- Baha accordingly - to decorate them with arcades and a superstructure. The marble and granite for the building come from Italy and were greeted by Ugo Giachery, an Italian Bahai, worried. The work was completed in October 1953. Together with the other historical places of pilgrimage of the Bahai in Haifa and Western Galilee is one of the shrine since July 2008 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Since 2001, the shrine is surrounded by 18 garden terraces, nine above and nine below the Shrine, which extend at the slope of Mount Carmel over a length of over a kilometer and the cityscape shape ( Gardens of the Bahai ). An extensive renovation of the building was completed in 2011. Since then it is considered as earthquake-proof.

In one of the rooms at present are also the remains of Abdul- Baha (see also: Shrine Abdul- Baha ).