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Baha'i Gardens

Baha'i worshippers in the Bahji Gardens in Acre. (Courtesy Baha'i World Center)
February 18, 2024, 1:14 pm
Decision expected in legal battle over ‘holy’ classification of Baha’i gardens in Acre
Bahji Gardens are closed to the public as Baha’i leadership battles city’s decision to lift tax exemption and charge community NIS 7 million a year for faith founder’s burial spot
By Nurit Malkin
The Bahai shrine in the religion's Haifa-based world center. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 1, 2022, 4:13 pm
Iran arrests Baha’i community members, alleges they spied for Israel
Intelligence ministry claims suspects handed over information to Baha’i center in Haifa; followers of faith face occasional mistreatment by authorities in Islamic Republic
By AP
View of the Bahai Gardens terraces in Haifa, from above, 2008. (Wikipedia/Danny Lyulyev/CC BY-SA)
October 29, 2019, 6:01 pm
Baha’is mark bicentenary of prophet at his Haifa tomb
Adherents gather at the mausoleum of the ‘Bab,’ the Persian merchant who laid the foundations for the faith in the mid-19th century
By AFP
A worker puts the finishing touches on a display of a Christmas tree, a crescent, and a menorah at the main traffic circle in front of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa for the Festival of Festivals, December 2014. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 22, 2014, 11:43 pm
December in Haifa, when menorahs mingle with Christmas trees and crescents
Festival of Festivals celebrates the 3 major monotheistic religions plus Druze and Bah’ai minorities with a 200,000-strong street party
By Melanie Lidman
A view of the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 29, 2014, 11:01 am
Walking tall on Haifa’s panoramic promenade
Gaze down upon a glorious history, from the days of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the modern Baha’i Gardens
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Opening night 2012 at the annual Jerusalem Film Festival, a holy city tradition (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash 90)
July 2, 2013, 6:55 pm
A screen full of stories
Troubled dancers, windmill makers and Baha’i gardeners are amongst the characters featured in the Cinematheque’s 30th Jerusalem Film Festival
By Jessica Steinberg
Terraces of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea (Oren Fixler/Flash90)
February 6, 2012, 8:19 pm
Bahai gardens most visited site in Israel
Almost one million people visited in 2011, more than seven million in the past 10 years
By Aaron Kalman
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