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1975 5 Jun
197-		 In a message to the Bahá'ís of the world, the Universal House of Justice recalled the "capital institutional significance" of the transference to Mount Carmel of the sacred remains of the Purest Branch and Navváb, interring them in the immediate neighbourhood of the resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf some thirty-six years prior.

   Now, on the occasion of the commencement of the construction of the seat of the Universal House of Justice, they recounted the progress of the Faith in the eighteen years since the completion of the first building on the Arc, the International Archives Building in June of 1957. In the time between 1957 to 1975.......
  - National Spiritual Assemblies have increased from 26 to 119
  - Local Spiritual Assemblies have increased from 1,000 to 17,000
  - Localities have increased from 4,500 to over 70,000 [Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 5 June 1975]

 - Bahá'í World Centre; Statistics
1975 5 Jun
197-		 Excavation of the site of the Seat of the Universal House of Justice began. [BW16:133; BW18:465]
  • See BW16:399–404 for an article on the Seat by architect Husayn Amánat.
  • See BW17:301 for the significance of the seat.
    		• - Architects; - Bahá'í World Centre; Architecture; Haifa, Israel; Hossein Amanat (Husayn Amanat); Universal House of Justice, Seat of (Haifa)
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