Shrine of Baha'ullah

The entrance to the Shrine of Baha'u'llah

The Shrine of Baha'u'llah

The Baha'u'llah Shrine is a building in the Israeli city ​​of Acre that houses the remains of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i religion, and which is part of the Baha'i World Center . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Bahji country house, where Baha'u'llah lived until his death on May 29, 1892. He was buried in the shrine shortly after sunset, and the shrine was then expanded by his son Abdu'l Baha . Shoghi Effendi , the grandson of Abdu'l Baha, raised the shrine to the most holy place of the Baha'i and called it the "Ocean of Light" ( Daryá-yi-Núr ), which made the shrine of Bab , which he called the "Mountain of Light" ( Kúh-i-Núr ) signified, outshine. The shrine represents the holiest place for the Baha'i and is the main pilgrimage destination during the Baha'i pilgrimage . He also indicates the direction of the qiblih in the daily compulsory prayers and the funeral prayer . As part of the Baha'i World Center is the shrine with him surrounding gardens and the villa Bahji since July 2008. UNESCO - World Heritage Site .

Individual evidence

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literature

• Baha'u'llah: Tablet from Carmel in: Messages from Akka . Revealed according to the Kitab-i-Aqdas . Bahai-Verlag, Hofheim 1982, ISBN 3-87037-143-9 ( online ).
• Baha'u'llah: Harvesting corn (5th edition) . Bahai Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 2003, ISBN 3-87037-406-3 , chap. 11 ( online ).
• Bahai Holy Places at the World Center . Haifa 1968.
• Braun, Eunice: Crown of Carmel: The Baha'i Religion and the Holy Land . Oxford 1982, ISBN 3-900443-04-1 .
• Ugo Giachery : Shoghi Effendi Recollections . Oxford 1973, ISBN 0-85398-050-0 .
• Peter Smith: A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith . Oneworld Publications, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-85168-184-6 .

Web links

Commons : Baha'u'llahs Shrine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official site about the Bahai Gardens
• Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
• Bahá'í Pilgrimage - Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh (English)

Coordinates: 32 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 35 ° 5 ′ 32 ″  E