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Citadel of Faith
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Arcade for the Shrine of the Báb
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Convey to believers the joyful news of the safe delivery on Mt.
Carmel of a consignment of thirty-two granite monolith columns, part
of the initial shipment of material ordered for construction of the
arcade of the Báb's Sepulcher, designed to envelop and preserve the
sacred previous structure reared by `Abdu'l-Bahá. Building operations
are soon starting notwithstanding the difficulties of the present situation.
I am supplicating the Almighty's guidance and sustaining grace
for successive stages of an enterprise envisaged sixty years ago by
Bahá'u'lláh, initiated by the Center of His Covenant, designed to
culminate as contemplated by Him in erection of a superstructure to be
crowned by a golden dome marking the consummation at the heart of
the Mountain of God of the momentous undertaking born through the
generating influence of the Will of the Founder of our beloved Faith,
so dear to the heart of His blessed Son, and dedicated to the memory of
the Martyr-Prophet, the immortal Herald of the Bahá'í Dispensation.
[December 13, 1948]
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