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Tag "Monument Gardens" details:

tag name: Monument Gardens type: Holy places, sites
web link: Monument_Gardens

"Monument Gardens" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (2 results; less)

  1. John Walbridge. Bahá'í Shrines (1989).
  2. Bahá'u'lláh, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. "Book of Names" Mentioned in the Tablet of Carmel, The (2003-03-23). Letter from the House and a compilation explaining "People of Bahá" and the line in the Lawh-i-Karmil "Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee, and will manifest the people of Bahá who have been mentioned in the Book of Names."

2.   from the Chronology (8 results; less)

  1. 1932-07-15
  2. 1938-04-30
      Munírih Khánum, the Holy Mother, wife of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, passed away. [BBD166; BW8:260; CB358; DH161]
    • Note: UD119 records this was 28 April.
    • She died while the American National Convention was in session in Chicago. Shoghi Effendi cabled the Convention to say that all Ridván celebrations were to be suspended and that the delegates should devote a special session to her remembrance. [SEPE1p266]
    • Shoghi Effendi interred her body just west of the Shrine of Bahíyyih Khánum and erected a simple monument over her grave. [DH161]
    • For excerpts from her autobiography see BW8:259–63.
    • For tributes to her see BW8:263–7.
  3. 1939-00-02 — Shoghi Effendi ordered twin monuments from Italy similar in style to that of the Greatest Holy Leaf and sought permission from the British authorities to reintere the remains of Navváb and the Purest Branch on Mount Carmel near those of Bahíyyih Khánum and the Holy Mother. Marble for the monuments came from Chiampo, Italy as for the Archives Building, the Shine of the Báb, the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, The Terraces project, and the Houses of Worship in India and Samoa. It was cut and chiseled by a firm called Margraf, formerly known as Industria Marmi Vincentini. [DH162; PP259]
  4. 1939-12-03
      Shoghi Effendi obtained permission from the British authorities in Palestine to reinter the bodies of Navváb and the Purest Branch on Mount Carmel. [DH162; PP260]
    • For the report of the Haifa District Commissioner see BBR460–1.
  5. 1939-12-05
      Shoghi Effendi disintered the remains of Navváb and the Purest Branch. [DH162; PP260]
    • He went to the 'Akká cemetery at daybreak to and removed the remains of Navváb to a new coffin. [DH162; PP260]
    • He then went to the Nabí Sálib cemetery and transfered the remains of the Purest Branch to a second new coffin. [DH162; PP260]
    • He transported them both to Mount Carmel, near the grave of the Greatest Holy Leaf. [DH162; PP260]
  6. 1939-12-24
      Shoghi Effendi reinterred the remains of Navváb and the Purest Branch. [DH162; GBF116; GPB347–8]
    • Two vaults were cut into the solid rock in the garden area near the monument of the Greatest Holy Leaf. [DH162]
    • For Shoghi Effendi's cable announcing this see DH162 and PP262.
    • For Shoghi Effendi's letters and cables concerning this see BW8:245–53, DH162 and PP261.
    • For a description of the reinterment see BW8:253–8.
    • For the prayer of visitation to the resting place of Navváb see BW8:251 and DH166.
  7. 1940-02-09
      The monuments of Navváb and the Purest Branch were dedicated at a ceremony in Haifa. [ZK293]
    • For details of the ceremony, see ZK293–6.
    • Marble* for the Monument Gardens came from Chiampo, Italy as did marble for the Archives Building, the Resting Place of Shoghi Effendi, the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, the Terraces Project, and the Houses of Worship in India and Samoa. [BWNS1223]

      *Edward Keith-Roach OBE (Born 1885 Gloucester, England— died 1954) was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945 (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of the Galilee). He was nicknamed "Páshá of Jerusalem". He approved exemption from duties and established a policy that was continued by Israel that allowed materials for the BWC to enter duty free, such as the marble for the buildings on the Arc. [Shoghi Effendi, Uncompiled Published Letters]

  8. 1970-06-23 — The centenary of the death of Mírzá Mihdí was commemorated with a day of prayer by Bahá'ís around the world and in the Holy Land with a pilgrimage to the barracks in 'Akká, Bahjí and to his monument. [BW15:162–3]
 
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