Baha'i House Of Worship

Bahai House of Worship can be found at Linden Ave 100. The following is offered: Tourist Attractions. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Wilmette there are 1 other Tourist Attractions. An overview can be found here.

Up the road from Evanston in Wilmette is the most visited of all the sights in the northern suburbs, the Bahá'í House of Worship, an ethereal edifice that seems not of this earth. The gleaming white stone temple, designed by the French-Canadian Louis Bourgeois and completed in 1953, is essentially a soaring, nine-sided, 135-foot dome, draped in a delicate lacelike facade, that reveals the...

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As Sheridan Road winds into Wilmette, the gleaming, nearly 200-foot-high dome of the Baha'i House of Worship swings into view, looking like a hybrid of a mosque and a space...

Admission is free. Hours: The Sanctuary and Gardens - 6:00 am to 10:00 pm daily, year round. The Welcome Center and Bookst...ore - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm daily; 10:00 am to 8:00 pm during the summer. One of only seven Baha'i temples in the world at present, this unique structure symbolizes unity and invites prayer to God. The quiet serenity of the Baha'i House of Worship reflects the spiritual...

Beautifully manicured gardens frame this magnificent, white-stone structure, which was completed in 1953. Its soaring, ...