The Bahaacute;iacute; House of Worship sits on the shores of Lake Michigan; just 5 miles north of Chicago. How it came to be built in the heart of the United States is a story that begins with the Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893. Inspired by news of the first Bahaacute;iacute; Temple in Ashgabat; Turkmenistan; members of the Chicago Bahaacute;iacute; House of Spirituality drafted a petition in 1903 asking for permission to begin their own. Fifty years later; in 1953; a completed Bahaacute;iacute; House of Worship was dedicated in Wilmette. The story of how very few believers in a new faith built the "Great Bell" of the North Shore--during the Great Depression and World War II years--is shown with archival photographs from every stage of construction up to the present. This includes ongoing restoration projects preserving the beauty of the "Temple of Light."
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