Mount Carmel

Haifa, Israel

4 stories took place here — most often featuring Shoghi Effendi, Louis G. Gregory and the Báb.

Mount Carmel (today: Haifa, Israel)

Stories at this place

Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892) · 1 story

The Tablet of Carmel

During His last visit to Haifa in 1891, Bahá'u'lláh pitched His tent near the Carmelite monastery on Mount Carmel and revealed the Tablet of Carmel, which is considered the charter of the Bahá'í World Centre.

3 min

'Abdu'l-Bahá's ministry (1892–1921) · 1 story

Louis Gregory at the Tomb of the Báb

In April 1911 Louis G. Gregory visited the Tomb of the Báb on Mount Carmel, where the pilgrims removed their shoes and heard prayers chanted, and that evening met the believers of Haifa.

1 min

Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957) · 2 stories

Designing the Arc on Mount Carmel

Rúḥíyyih Khánum describes how Shoghi Effendi drew an arc on Mount Carmel above the graves of the Greatest Holy Leaf, her mother and her brother, as the site for the Faith's future administrative buildings.

2 min

Designing the Shrine of the Báb

Toward the end of 1942 Shoghi Effendi asked his father-in-law, the Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell, to design the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb. Built with stone cut in Italy, it was completed in 1953.

2 min

Figures associated with this place

Shoghi Effendi2 Louis G. Gregory1 the Báb1 William Sutherland Maxwell1 Ugo Giachery1 Bahá'u'lláh1

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