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The Baháʼí Terraces, or the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, are garden terraces on Mount Carmel in Haifa, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Israel. Completed in 2001, there are 19 terraces and more than 1,500 steps ascending the mountain. [ 1 ]
In 2002, the Finance Ministry of Israel threatened to invalidate a status agreement between the Baha'i World Center and the Israeli government. The Baha'is were told to hire more Israelis at their centers in the Haifa region. [19] The local Israelis and the staff of the Baháʼí World Centre have little contact with each other.
The head of this Department is also a Rabbi, Dr. Hirschberg. Recently he, his wife and party, visited all the Baha'i properties in Haifa and 'Akka, following upon a very pleasant tea party in the Western Pilgrim House with the members of the International Baha'i Council." [20] (Baháʼí News, no. 244, June 1951, p. 4)
He subsequently asked his son, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, to build, on the alignment of the Templer Colony road (Carmel Avenue) with the shrine to the forerunner of the religion, known as "the Báb", halfway up the mountain. [3] The conjunction of the Templer buildings and the Shrine have become the most significant landmark in the modern city of Haifa.
Haifa: Shrine of the Báb [7] Baháʼí Terraces [8] Arc. Seat of the Universal House of Justice [9] International Teaching Centre Building [10] Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts [11] International Archives [12] Monument Gardens [13] Site of the future House of Worship [14] House of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá [15] Resting place of Amatu'l-Bahá ...
[45] [21] The temple rises to a height of 40.8 metres [21] and is situated on a property that covers 105,000 square metres and features nine surrounding ponds. [45] An educational centre beside the temple was established in 2017. [47] The temple uses solar panels to produce 120 kW of the 500 kW of electricity it requires in total. [50]
The Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá is the location in Israel wherein the remains of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith, will be reinterred.Since his death in 1921, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's remains have been located beneath one of the rooms of the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, Israel.
[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...