Baha'i Temple (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738584218)

The Bahá'í 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 Bahá'í Temple in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, members of the Chicago Bahá'í House of Spirituality drafted a petition in 1903 asking for permission to begin their own. Fifty years later, in 1953, a completed Bahá'í 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
ISBN-10: 0738584215
ISBN-13: 9780738584218
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 08/23/2010
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 0.30d