Delhi: baha'i house of worship

For some reason, I'd always wanted to see this temple (or 'House of Worship'). We made a special trip to it on our last afternoon in Delhi.

Bit of an anti-climax as it was far too busy to get inside (queues went on for hours - can get 150,000 vistors in a day ... more people have visited this temple than they have the Eifel Tower or Taj Mahal!), but rather beautiful from the outside. Resembles a Lotus Leaf.

Wiki on the Baha'i Faith:

The Bahá'í Faith is the religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th century Persia. There are around six million Bahá'ís in more than 200 countries around the world.

According to Bahá'í teachings, religious history is seen as an evolving educational process for mankind, through God's messengers, which are termed Manifestations of God. Bahá'u'lláh is seen as the most recent, pivotal, but not final of these individuals. He claimed to be the expected redeemer and teacher prophesied in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions and that his mission was to establish a firm basis for unity throughout the world, and inaugurate an age of peace and justice, which Bahá'ís expect will inevitably arise.

Only 6 million of them, but must be a pretty wealthly lot to have built edifices like this one!

Official website here.



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