Bahá'í World Centre buildings
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How it came to be
The Bahá'í Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee are buildings, monuments and gardens at seven locations in northern Israel visited on Bahá'í pilgrimage. At their core are the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, at Bahjí near Acre, and the Shrine of the Báb, his forerunner, in Haifa, which Bahá'ís regard as their two holiest places.
Bahá'u'lláh and his family were exiled by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz and arrived in the prison city of Akká (Acre) on 31 August 1868. His confinement was eased in 1877, from 1879 he lived in the Mansion of Bahjí, and he died there in 1892. In 1891 he showed his eldest son, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the spot on Mount Carmel where the Shrine of the Báb was to be built.
The remains of the Báb were laid in a six-room mausoleum of local stone on 21 March 1909. A superstructure was begun over it in 1949 and completed in 1953 to a design by the Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell, paid for by Bahá'ís worldwide, with most of its stone carved in Italy. On 8 July 2008 the sites became the first connected with a relatively new religious tradition to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.
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