Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries people travelled on foot for months or by train and steamer for days to get to Akka or Haifa to visit the Baha’i World Centre. It took me around 14 hours travel all told from the UK. It would have been rather quicker, had the flight from London [...]
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I shall be trying Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 for the first time today as I pass through on my way to foreign parts.
I’m not sure of my schedule while I’m away, but I may not be able to blog. I know I’ve been a bit erratic recently (so what’s new?), but a week of quiet [...]
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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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The French news agency AFP has published a very nice quite odd article on its website about the Baha’i World Centre in Israel, under the title “Israel haven for new Baha’i world order”.
HAIFA, Israel (AFP) — Dominating a holy mountain in Israel is the nerve centre of the world’s fastest growing major religion, preaching global [...]
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