Baha’i­ Temple (Images of America)

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The Baha’i­ House of Worship sits at the shores of Lake Michigan, just 5 miles north of Chicago. The way it came to be built within the heart of the US is a story that begins with the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Inspired by news of the first Baha’i­ Temple in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, members of the Chicago Baha’i­ House of Spirituality drafted a petition in 1903 asking for permission to begin their very own. Fifty years later, in 1953, a completed Baha’i­ House of Worship used to be dedicated in Wilmette. The story of how very few believers in a new faith built the “Great Bell” of the North Shore–all through the Great Depression and World War II years–is shown with archival photographs from each stage of construction as much as the present. This includes ongoing restoration projects preserving the wonderful thing about the “Temple of Light.”

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