Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
In the House of ‘Abbúd, visitors move softly around and there’s a shush of socked feet sliding across the floor. Whispered conversations in front of pictures hanging on the walls. Pilgrims sit cross-legged on the floor of the wood-lined room where Bahá’u’lláh finished revealing the Kitáb-i-Aqdas in 1873 and contemplate the going out of the [...]
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This is the official photograph of the Tenth International Bahá’í Convention, 26th April to 3rd May 2008.
I’m in there somewhere!
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Delegates from many nations to the International Bahá’í Convention went in groups to visit the prison cell that Bahá’u’lláh occupied in the barracks in Akka for two years, two months and five days from 31 August 1868. We crowded into the cell and sat in silence on the floor, on chairs and on the ledge [...]
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