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...this area come from many different backgrounds. Some were Protestants or Catholics; others were Jews, Hindus, or Muslims. There are high school and college students, housewives, retired people, and many who work at a variety of jobs, professional and non-professional; there is a lady in Cambridge who knew 'Abdu'l-Baha when he came to this country. Some come originally from other parts of the United States or the world--Iran, India, Thailand, and Samoa. Many of them were Baha'is in their native countries but a few first heard about the faith when they came to this country...
Permission from Palestine. Permission to erect a Bahá'i House of Worship "in the center of the Western World" was received from Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, in 1902. The fact that there were very few Bahá'is in the U.S. at that time made the project seem overbold. But by 1912 the Temple's site had been bought, and blessed by Abdu'l-Bahá himself. Cried he: "Now praise be to God that Chicago and its environs, from the beginning...
...competition for the Temple's design was won by the late New Jersey architect Louis Bourgeois, a Bahá'i believer. Bourgeois took ship to the Holy Land, showed Abdu'l-Bahá his drawings. Abdu'l-Bahá approved and set the building's cost at $1,000,000 (cost to date...
...International Congress of Religion at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 went one Ibrahim George Khayru'llah to spread Baha'i in the U. S. Founder Baha'u'llah had died the year before and his son Abdu'1-Baha (servant of Baha) had become Expounder & Promoter. Born in 1844 on the very day when the Bab was making his great prediction, Abdu'1-Baha began expounding and promoting late in life, but under his able leadership the faith gained world following. In 1912 he followed Ibrahim Khayru'llah to the U. S., spoke in churches, synagogs...