29 April 2015
To all National Spiritual Assemblies
Dear Bahái Friends,
The swiftly advancing construction work of the last
continental House of Worship paused today as the members of the National
Spiritual Assembly of Chile, together with a handful of believers, assembled to
mark a moment of significant symbolism. Having been hand carried from the Holy
Land to Santiago, a small ornamental silver case containing dust lovingly
collected decades earlier from the sacred space of the inner Shrine of the Báb
by Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum was ceremoniously set within a cavity at the
heart of the wooden carving of the Greatest Name designed to adorn the apex of
the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár. This bold yet graceful calligraphic piece, crafted by a
local artisan from the timber of the roble pellín tree native to Chile, is now
raised into its permanent position twenty-nine metres above ground, framed
against the sky, at the perfect centre of the Temple.
The Universal House of Justice
(Messages from the Universal House of Justice 2001-2022)
