Baha'i Temple

by Moore Hill, Candace

• ISBN13: 9780738584218
• ISBN10: 0738584215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-18
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub

Summary

The Bahá'í House of Worship sits on the shores of Lake Michigan, just 5 miles north of Chicago. How it came to be built in the heart of the United States is a story that begins with the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Inspired by news of the first Bahá'í Temple in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, members of the Chicago Bahá'í House of Spirituality drafted a petition in 1903 asking for permission to begin their own. Fifty years later, in 1953, a completed Bahá'í House of Worship was dedicated in Wilmette. The story of how very few believers in a new faith built the "Great Bell" of the North Shore--during the Great Depression and World War II years--is shown with archival photographs from every stage of construction up to the present. This includes ongoing restoration projects preserving the beauty of the "Temple of Light."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
The Bahá'í Faith Comes to America	p. 9
'Abdu'l-Bahá Comes to America	p. 23
Choosing a Design	p. 29
The Temple Rises	p. 33
A Temple of Light	p. 45
The Interior is Set Aglow	p. 63
The Gardens Bloom	p. 73
The Temple in the Community	p. 85
The Temple Restoration	p. 119
About the Bahá'í House of Worship	p. 127
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