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Stepping into the gardens of the Shrine of the Bab . . .

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. . . is like entering a hallucination. These are the words used by journalist Karl Vick in his article in Time World about the terraced gardens and the Shrine of the Bab at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa.

The Centre has just reopened after a $6 million restoration which took three years to complete. The shrine stands as a testament to the survival of the Baha’i faith, which started in Iran.

Golden moment in Haifa

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Hundreds of thousands of tourists and thousands of Baha’i pilgrims are expected to visit the newly restored golden-domed Shrine of the Bab in Haifa, Israel this year. The Shrine of the Bab and its gardens are renowned the world over for their beauty and tranquillity and have just been unveiled after more than two years of extensive restoration work.