Baha'i Temple

The Baha'i 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 Baha'i Temple in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, members of the Chicago Baha'i House of Spirituality drafted a petition in 1903 asking for permission to begin their own. Fifty years later, in 1953, a completed Baha'i 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."

• | Author: Candace Moore Hill
• | Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 130 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1531656080
• | ISBN-13: 9781531656089