Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Some of Hatfield’s 35 Indian Baha’is and their friends
What an evening! More than 120 people – Baha’is and their friends from all over Hertfordshire – noisily celebrated the anniversary of the Declaration of the Bab with prayers, music, food and dancing in Hatfield’s Roe Hill Hall last night.
Declaration of the Bab
The Declaration of the Bab [...]
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The Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has today added two Bahá’í shrines to the list of World Heritage sites. The resting places of the twin Founders of the Bahá’í Faith – the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh – are the first sites connected with a modern religious tradition to [...]
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Brian Kurzius has sent me the link to his photos of the light display behind the Shrine of the Báb on Mt Carmel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. They are great photos, taken from Brian and Christine’s apartment in Haifa.
And Brian has put an animation of the light show on [...]
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It’s not every day that one can see the Shrine of the Báb like this. These blue lights sweeping over Mount Carmel were there to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the State of Israel.
According to this story on Arlington Baha’i, normal lighting of the Shrine was reduced for the occasion.
I’m afraid I [...]
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Rainbow over the Shrine of the Báb and the International Teaching Centre
My recent trip to the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa in Israel coincided with the twin anniversaries of the Birthday of the Bab and the Birthday of Baha’u’llah, as celebrated in the lunar calendar.
Most Baha’i communities celebrate these birthdays according to the solar calendar [...]
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I had the extraordinary privilege yesterday of attending the celebration of the Birthday of the Báb in the Seat of the Universal House of Justice at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel.
There’s so much I want to write about this event, the feelings it engendered, the tears I shed, but I am on an [...]
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