Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel is the mountain spoken of by Isaiah as the "mountain of the Lord." It is a mountain ridge, extending east-west, with the western end overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and the Bay of Haifa. It is the site of the Bahá’í World Centre, including several Bahá’í Holy places, the most important of which are the Shrine of the Báb and the Monument Gardens.
In Biblical times, the Prophet Elijah was said to have lived there, in a cave. In more modern times, Bahá’u’lláh Himself visited Mount Carmel, and chanted within earshot of the monks supervising the cave of Elijah. While on the mountain, Bahá’u’lláh revealed the Tablet of Carmel, which is the charter for the establishment of the Bahá’í World Centre upon that mountain. He also stood in a certain spot (marked now by a circle of cypress trees), and indicated to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá where the remains of the Báb should be buried.
From the Shrine of the Báb, extolled as the heart of the mountain, the view is across the bay of Haifa, towards ‘Akká in the distance.
The German colony in Haifa at the foot of Mt. Carmel was profiled in 1880, having been there about a decade already.[1]
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- The Universal House of Justice (2005). The Bahá’í World - An International Record 2003-2004. Baha'i World Centre, Haifa: World Centre Publications. ISBN 0-85398-972-9.
- ↑ German Colony in asiatic Turkey, The Times, (London, Greater London, England), 8 March 1880 • Page 4
