Baha’i Holy Places on UNESCO World Heritage Center

Last week, 8 July, UNESCO World Heritage Center, inscribed 21 new places as world heritage places on its list. Among them, was Baha’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee. It’s a great event for Bahai’s, at one hand for their holy places being inscribed and for Israelis at the other hand, to have another Heritage Place on their land.
Maybe it brings Israelis and Iranians a little together; maybe not!

The Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee are inscribed for the testimony they provide to the Bahá’i’s strong tradition of pilgrimage and for their profound meaning for the faith. The property numbers 26 buildings, monuments and sites at 11 locations in Acre and Haifa, associated with the founders of the faith, among them the Shrine of the Bahá’u’lláh in Acre and the Mausoleum of the Báb in Haifa. It also includes houses, gardens, a cemetery and a large group of modern buildings in the neoclassical style that serve for administration, archives and a research centre.

And also Armenian Monastic Ensembles in Iran inscribed among those new UNESCO World Heritage Places; an honor for my land.