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2019 17 Nov
201-		 About 2,000 people were joined by representatives of the national government and members of the National Spiritual Assembly for the groundbreaking ceremony at the Temple site at Lenakel, on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. A traditional wooden spade called a kakel was used to turn the soil symbolizing the start of construction on the local Bahá'í House of Worship. Local chiefs had presented the kakel to the Bahá'í community in a customary ceremony the day before to honour the eight tribes of Tanna that together offered the land for the Temple. [BWNS1373]
  • Slideshow of the event.
    		• - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Local; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Architecture; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Lenakel, Vanuatu; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Vanuatu; Vanuatu
    2019 24 Nov
    201-    		 Progress Report on the construction of the national Bahá'í House of Worship for Papua New Guinea the first Mashriqul-Adhkár to be designated as a national Temple.

  • The House of Worship will be situated on a hilltop in the country's sprawling capital city, Port Moresby. It will be located on the same property as the Bahá'í community's national offices and will include gardens and other meditative spaces. The central edifice will have nine gabled-roof entrances made of timber.
  • After receiving formal approval to commence construction from National Capital District's building board in August, the excavation work began. At the time of the report, the Temple's foundation was being laid and it was expected to be complete by December. Work on the steel superstructure was scheduled to begin in January.
  • Slideshow. Mashriqul-Adhkar
    		• - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Architecture; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, National; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Port Moresby; Papua New Guinea; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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