• most great house

    The House the Prince Wanted to Build

    After Bahá’u’lláh had returned to Baghdad from his two years of withdrawal to the mountains of Kurdistan, he lived in a house close to the western bank of the Tigris River. This was the period when increasingly the Babi community began to turn to Bahá’u’lláh. Although he had not announced his mission, his writings and presence attracted the remnants of the followers of the Bab to him. During this period Bahá’u’lláh wrote works such as the Hidden Words and the Book of Certitude. The home where Bahá’u’lláh lived, a modest dwelling: become the focal center of a great number of seekers, visitors and pilgrims, including Kurds, Persians, Arabs and Turks, and … from…