Báb's house
The Báb's house (Persian: خانه باب), also known as Seyyed Báb's house, in the Iranian city of Shiraz, was the home of Seyyed 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, founder of the Bábí religion or Bábism, where he openly proclaimed his religion for the first time.[1]
This house, which is a prescribed site of pilgrimage, became the most important Baháʼí pilgrimage destination in Iran,[2][3][4][5] was demolished on 1 September 1979,[6] during the Iranian Revolution.[7][8]
Destruction
[edit]In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Baháʼu'lláh declared this house a place for Baháʼí pilgrimage.[9] After major renovation in 1903, under the guidance of Abdu'l-Bahá, the house became Baháʼís' main holy place in Iran.[10] During subsequent years this house was attacked by fanatics and demolished.[10] In 1942 the house was the subject of arson. In 1955 in the midst of a series of persecutions of Baháʼís, which took place across Iran led by Mohammad Taghi Falsafi, the building was severely damaged. In September 1979, after Iran’s 1978 revolution, the house was razed by religious fanatics .[3][10]
Reaction of Baháʼí community
[edit]Following the demolition, in a letter dated 1 October 1979, Iran’s Baháʼí National Spiritual Assembly expressed their grievance over the house’s destruction.[8] Members of the National Spiritual Assembly who wrote this letter were kidnapped the following year and are presumed killed.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "دین ایرانی" در کوه کَرمَل". BBC Persian (in Persian). 21 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2019-07-16.
- ^ Kamrava, M.; Dorraj, M. (2008). Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. Greenwood Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-313-34163-2.
- ^ a b Smith, Peter (2008). An introduction to the Baha'i faith. Cambridge University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-521-86251-6. OCLC 181072578.
- ^ "BAHAISM viii. Bahai Shrines". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Foltz, R. (2013). Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present. Oneworld Publications. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-78074-309-7. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
- ^ دیانتی ممنوع - آزار و تعقیب بهاییان در ایران. Ketab.co. 2009. p. ۸۳. ISBN 978-1-59584-193-3.
- ^ "جنازههای بیتشییع؛ از احمد کسروی و بیژن جزنی تا مریم فیروز و هاله سحابی". BBC Persian (in Persian). 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "بهائیان و تشدید سرکوبها پس از انقلاب". BBC Persian (in Persian). 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Baha'i News -- House of the Bab, Shiraz, Iran". bahai-library.com. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ a b c Smith, Peter (2000). "Shiraz the House of the Bab". A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. p. 314. ISBN 1-85168-184-1. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019.
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