It’s hard to believe that it’s already a year since the House of Worship in Santiago, Chile was officially opened. In the year that’s passed, Brazilian photo journalist Nabil Sami has captured a beautiful array of images of the mother temple of South America. From shots of the temple covered in the shrouds of winter’s snow, to gatherings in the burst of spring, these photos form a beautiful montage of this wonderful iconic part of the Baha’i world. Continue reading
In the last few years Instagram has grown to be a dominant image-based social network, and many Baha’i artists use it to showcase their works. We’ve collected seven beautiful examples of Baha’i-inspired artwork from around Instagram. If you like the images, be sure to follow their accounts! Continue reading
On our @bahaiblog Instagram account we’ve been publishing inspiring Baha’i quotes together with beautiful imagery from Unsplash. Here we’ve collected a dozen of our favourites. If you enjoy these, be sure to follow us on Instagram! Continue reading
Located at the foot of the Taunus Mountains of Germany, in the village of Langenhain, near Frankfurt, the Baha’i House of Worship in Germany was completed in 1964. Today Baha’is in Germany number in the thousands, and the country was home to one of the world’s first National Assemblies, elected in 1923. And when the House of Worship was dedicated, it was done so by the Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum, who represented the first elected Universal House of Justice.
The German Baha’i House of Worship is the mother temple of Europe, and is known for particularly notable acoustics created within the dome. Built from steel, aluminium and glass, the dome has over five hundred diamond shaped windows that bring light in while giving the building its characteristic visual feel. We’ve collected a selection of beautiful photos of the temple for your enjoyment! Continue reading
The Baha’i World Center in Israel is the spiritual and administrative heart of our Faith. So it’s no surprise that images of the Holy places are always popular with Baha’is around the world. In fact our previous post of images from the Baha’i gardens is one of our most viewed. When I recently stumbled upon Californian photographer Dana Allen’s gorgeous gallery of images from a 2013 trip to Haifa I was particularly excited. They are not only beautiful photos, but also some of the more unique that I’ve come across in their treatment and view. Dana’s graciously consented to us showcasing a set here, but if you’d like to see the whole gallery, as well as more stunning photography head to his portfolio site.
The Baha’i Hidden Words are described by their author Baha’u’llah as capturing the essence of certain spiritual truths. These small passages of revelation are one of the many magical things about the Baha’i Faith, and here we present a set of them, in image form. If you enjoy these, be sure to follow @bahaiblog on Instagram to see more. Continue reading
For more than fifty years, the Baha’i House of Worship in Kampala, Uganda, has been in the Guardian’s words, ‘the spiritual heart of Africa’. It was built in the first decade of Uganda’s Baha’i history, and has stood through the years of plenty, when the Baha’i community of Uganda grew to be the largest on the continent. In the 1970s a wave of Sub-Saharan countries banned the Baha’i Faith, including Uganda, under then rule Idi Amin, but this ban was rescinded in the following decade, and today Uganda is home to tens of thousands of Baha’is.
We’ve collected a dozen photos of the mother temple of Africa from Flickr and 500px, to give you a visual glimpse of this beautiful hub of Baha’i activity and worship. Continue reading
Several months ago we featured the music video of Baha’i singer Shameem’s new song Under One Sun. Not only is it lovely music, but the whole clip showcases some amazing paper artwork, including a full-length dress made of paper! I had never seen this kind of artistry before, and it’s truly something to behold. The work is courtesy of the talented hands of Renée Farrant, a Baha’i from Western Australia who expresses herself and her faith through this deceptively simple medium in some extremely intricate forms, often marrying two and three dimensional pieces with light and shade. You can find Renée’s work online, and we asked her to give us some insight into the inspiration and process that goes into it. Continue reading
Artist, photographer and NineteenMonths contributor, Lindsey Lugsch-Tehle currently resides in the US and is pursuing a masters degree in Interfaith Action. As an avid traveller, her Instagram account is a source of inspiring images from around the world, including some beautiful images of the Holy Land. We caught up with Lindsey to ask her a few questions and to showcase some of her lovely works! Be sure to follow her on Instagram and 500px! Continue reading
The works of talented Persian calligrapher Reza Mostmand are nothing short of exquisite. Since our interview with Reza here on Baha’i Blog, he has continued to release beautiful new works and purchasable prints on his studio site mostmand.com. Here’s a sample of some of them, with links through to buy prints. Continue reading