The Bahá’i Faith teaches that religious truth is progressive not final, that G-d, the Almighty Father, educates the human race trought a series of Prophets who have appeared troughout history and will always appear to guide the destinies fo men. Moses, Zoroaster, Buddah, Christ, Muhammad and now Baha’u'llah are examples fo these Divine Educators who give to the world religion and is not sect of any other religion.

The aims and purposes of the Baha’i faith have been summarized by its Guardian, the late Shoghi Effendi as follow: “The Bahá’i Faith upholds the unity of God, recognizes the unity of His Prophets and inculcates the principle of the oneness and wholeness of the entire human race. It proclaims the necesity and the inevitability of the unifaction of the mankind, asserts that it is gradually approaching, and claims that nothing short of the transmuting spirit of G-d…can ultimately succed in bringing it about. It, moreeover, ejoins upon its follower the primary duty of an unfettered search after the truth, condemns all manner of prejudice and superstition, declares the purpose of religion to be promotion of the amity and concord, proclaims its essential harmony with science, and recognizes it as the foremost agency for the pacification and the orderly progress of human society.

It unequivocally maintains the principle of equal rights, opportunities and privileges for men and women, insists on compulsory education, prescribes monogamy, discourages divorce, emphasizes the necessity of strict obedience of one’s government, exalts any work performed in the spirit of service to the level of worship, urges either the creation or selection of an auxiliary international language, and delineates the outlines of those instituions that must establish and prepetuate the general peace of mankind”.

David Ben Moshe

This edifice, combining the sytle and proportions of European architecture with designs inspired by the sea, is of Chiampo stone, cut and carved in Italy, with monolith columns of rose Baveno granite. The 12,000 fish scale tiles were made in Holland by a process of fire glazing ofer gold leaf and in spite of their brilliant efect cost about $1.00 each. The whole cost of the new building about three quarters of million dollars, was me by Baha’is work are voluntary and accepted only from members of the Faith.

The International Baha’i Archives Building completed in 1947 in teh beautiful style of classical greek architecture, stants opposite the shrine of the Bab on the other side of the main highway running up Mount Carmel. It likewise is built of chiampo stoen, dressed and carved in Italy, the green tiles of the roof came from Holland.

This edifice is a private museum of Baha’i relics and historic material. In the garden adjacent to the archivces are four witht carrara marble monuments in the style of small temples conssiteing of cupola supported by slender columns. These are tombstones erected over the resting places of some of the inmediate members of the family of Baha’ u’ llah.