Children’s class kit
architecture — Teens (13–17)
Auto-assembled from the Bahai Story Library
Stories
- The Man With the Stick and the Notebook
On a quiet mountain slope full of pine trees, one man walked back and forth for years, imagining a great curving path and beautiful buildings that did not exist yet.
— Rúḥíyyih Khánum, The Priceless Pearl
- The Architect Who Was Family
When it was time to build a beautiful crown over the Shrine of the Báb, Shoghi Effendi turned to a famous architect who happened to be his own father-in-law.
— Rúḥíyyih Khánum, The Priceless Pearl
- Designing the Arc on Mount Carmel
In *The Priceless Pearl* Rúḥíyyih Khánum recounts how Shoghi Effendi, walking the slope of Mount Carmel year after year, conceived and laid out the great Arc of buildings — the International Archives, the Universal House of Justice site, the Centre for the Study of the Texts, the Teaching Centre — on which the world administrative institutions of the Faith would in time stand.
— Rúḥíyyih Khánum, The Priceless Pearl
Discussion questions
Quote to memorize
“Year by year, walking the slope, the Guardian conceived the great Arc on which the world institutions of the Cause would rise.”
Coloring page
Girih Knot
A geometric pattern from the Persian girih tradition — interlocking strapwork that recurs in the architecture of mosques, tombs, and the Bahá'í Holy Places.