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Yefe Nof Street or Via Ha'tzionut Ave.
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Bahai Shrine and Gardens: 8th wonder of the world.
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  • Fjord87
  • Updated By Fjord87 on October 26, 2004
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  • A panorama I took. - Haifa
    A panorama I took.
    by Fjord87, 1 more photos
    The Bahá'í World Centre, the focal point of the International Bahá'i community is not only the spiritual centre of the Bahá'í-world, but also the administrative heart.

    Depite the religious background of the place members of all religions or no religion at all can feel the harmony, beauty and peacefulness of this place. If you want to let your mind rest for a while in the middle of your trip, visiting to this place is totally worth it!! The gardens consist of 19 terraces with beautiful fountains and flowers, marble benches and pathways made of red rubble.

    In the 10th terrace lays the beautiful Shrine of the Báb, who is one of the two founders of the Bahá'í faith. Shrine of the Bahá'u'lláh is in Ákka, just across the Haifa bay.

    The administrative buildings are built in the most beautiful style, ressembling the antique buildings of Greece but having a harmonic, modern touch. The administrative buildings are on the "arch" just by the Shrine of the Báb.

    "The earth is but one country and mankind it's citizens." -Bahá'u'lláh-

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  • Directions: You just can't miss seeing it.. :P
  • Website: http://www.bahaiworldnews.com/terraces/opening.en.html
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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: This place gives Haifa its peaceful feeling
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  • By piglet44 on December 13, 2004
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    Bahai Shrine and gardens
    by piglet44
    The Bahai shrine and gardens dominate the Haifa scenery and look different from each place in the city. The gardens are beautifully laid out and well worth a tour. The guides explain about this unique religion and show you around the Shrine of the Bab, with its wonderful golden dome.
    Enjoy!

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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: BAHA'I SHRINE & GARDENS
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  • Carmela71
  • Updated By Carmela71 on November 14, 2003
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  • The gardens - Haifa
    The gardens
    by Carmela71
    Ok I had never heard before about this religion, before we decided to go to Israel and I saw about this gardens. It seems that here is the Shrine of the Bab.

    We got to know that the World Center of the Bahai faith is located in Israel and includes holy places and beautiful gardens in both Acre and Haifa.

    The Bab (Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad), Forerunner of Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the aha'i religion, is buried in the golden-domed mausoleum.

    Please remember you have to cover yourself there

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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: Baha'i Shrine and Gardens
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  • Sharon
  • Updated By Sharon on June 29, 2003
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  • Bahai Shrine and Gardens - Haifa
    by Sharon
    This is one of the most beautiful places in the north area. this Gradens and shrine are Located on a High point and goes down about 500 mr. This is the ceneter of the Bahays in the world and a holly place for them.

    Please Note, for a visit in the Bahai Shrine and Gardens you MUST make reservation for a tour, there's no entrance without an appt.
    There is NO charge for visit and tour !!

    One more rull of The bahai, is dress modest., No entrance with shorts, and girls please take cover if you wear a shirt which doesnt really cover much...

    Abit more about the Bahai Gardens and Shrine in: A little about the Bahai Beliefes at: http://www.bahai.org/

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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: Bahai Gardens
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  • By galy on May 2, 2003
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    Bahai Gardens
    by galy
    Renovated in the last years, the Bahai Gardens are the most tourist atractive place in Haifa. You can go on a tour inside the gardens and into the golden dome, bt the most beautifull sight is looking at the gardens from the street below.

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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: Golden Dome
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  • galy
  • Updated By galy on April 2, 2005
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  • Bahai Shrine and Gardens - Haifa
    by galy
    The Golden Dome is a shrine, not a temple, where the Bab (ar. "the Gate") and Baha'u'llah's son Abdu'l-Baha are buried. It's in the Bahai Gardens. You can reach it from the united nation avenue(shderot hatzionut) every day from 09:00a.m. to 12:00 . No need for reservation or organised tour, just walk in. The inside is nice but modest compare with the outside and the sorounding garden. Don't forget to take off your shoes when u enter

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  • Directions: In the midle of the street. You can walk up, or better down from each end, or better take a bus which stop just in front. No parking around
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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: The Measure of All Things
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  • By gilabrand on August 28, 2008
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  • Bahai Shrine and Gardens - Haifa
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    If Haifa is famous for anything nowadays, it has to be the Bahai temple and gardens on the slope of Mount Carmel. According to a recent newspaper article, almost half of all tourists to Haifa go there just to see the gardens (now a World Heritage Site). Tours are free, but you need to call in advance to join one of the groups that go either up or down the mountain. The tour guides will tell you the story of Siyyud Ali Muhammad, aka the Bab (meaning “door”), who invented a new religion in mid-19th century Iran, which got him executed by a firing squad.
    His remains were hidden by his followers for 60 years, until they were buried in a mausoleum on the Carmel.

    The Bab prophesied the coming of the Baha’ullah (meaning “splendor of God”), who was thrown into a dungeon in Tehran, exiled four times and finally imprisoned in Akko. After spending so much time in dark, damp jail cells, maybe it is not that strange that the founders of the Bahai religion hailed light as a metaphor for spiritual illumination, and lush gardens became a synonym for spiritual life.

    So yes, by all means go see the Bahai gardens. They are gorgeous – no question about it. But I must tell you that as I walked through this paradise on earth some years ago, I felt a vague sense of unease. The perfection and symmetry are not to be believed. The gardeners use rulers and measuring tapes when they do their pruning to insure that every plant and hedge is perfectly uniform in shape and size. So you are walking through a Garden of Eden - but it is a very controlled one, with very little left up to nature.

    Not long ago, I saw a TV documentary about the Bahai that backed up my intuition that there is something vaguely sinister about the place. It turns out that underneath the fabulous terraced gardens laid out with such precision is a gigantic underground hideout complete with bomb shelters, conference rooms, doctors’ clinics, dining hall, supermarket and parking garages – all spotlessly shiny and clean…and eerily empty.

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  • Phone: 972-4-8313131
  • Directions: Modest dress required. There are three entrances: Yefe Nof Street (upper level) , Ha'tzionut Ave (Shrine & garden), Hagefen Square (lower level). Reservation office is closed on Friday & Saturday.
  • Website: http://www.einhanet.co.il/bahai/
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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: Haifa - The Bahai Shrine and gardens
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  • Updated By ophiro on June 1, 2005
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  • The shrine and the gardens - Haifa
    The shrine and the gardens
    by ophiro
    The bahai shrine is the center of the bahai religion.
    There is beautiful gardens and the shrine with the golden dome where the founder of this religion is buried.

    The view from here is amazing and the dome is very beautiful too.

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  • Phone: 04-8358358
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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: Bahai Shrine Tours
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  • Updated By Bregman on May 21, 2005
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  • Bahai Shrine - Haifa
    Bahai Shrine
    by Bregman
    When in Haifa, you must visit the Bahai Shrine, shown here at night. The golden dome dominates the city of Haifa and can be seen clearly form anywhere in the lower part of the city. For more images of the Bahai shrines and gardens in Haifa and the vicinity, check out the travelogue and while you do that you might want to see the other travelogue as well.
    In addition to the building itself with its golden dome, there are also the beatiful gardens, including a view of the Mediterranean. And, most important, it's free :) You can go there by yourself or you can take a guided tour. There are two tours, one for the upper part of the garden and one for the lower part. The tours are free but you must call and reserve a place at least one day in advance.

  • Phone: (04) 831-3131
  • Website: http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/Eng/news.phtml?subaction=showfull&id=1071094998&archive=&start_from=&ucat=6&
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    Bahai Shrine and Gardens: The Bahai Shrine
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  • By edvin_br on January 10, 2005
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  • The Bahai shrine - Haifa
    The Bahai shrine
    by edvin_br
    The Bahai Shrine is one of Haifas most significant symbols and the second most important site in the Bahai religioun.
    The Babs remains were buried at the site in 1909. Therefore, its the second most important center in the Bahai religion.
    In 1953 the shrines golden dome and the new columns were inaugurated according to the design of the Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell. The shrine combains both western and eastern elements in its style.
    The shrine is used for prays and meditations, and not for religious ritual. The decorations around it were made for beauty and with no religoious intents.

    The shrine is open all week days from 9:00 to 12:00 A.M.

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