13.04.2011                      09.Nisan, 5771

Haifa:

Baha’is unveil renovated Shrine of the Bab in Haifa

Mount Carmel building restored, dome gets almost 12,000 new tiles.

The golden glint was returned to Haifa’s most famous hillside on Tuesday, when the Baha’i community unveiled its Shrine of the Bab, restored with a fortified structure and adorned with a newly gilded roof.
Located in the center of meticulously gardened terraces leading up the northern slope of Mount Carmel, the shrine is the second holiest place for members of the Baha’i faith and marks the site where the remains of the Baha’i founding prophet, the Bab, were reinterred in 1909….