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Original structure of the Shrine of the Báb in 1909
(left), and
today (right) with its colonnade, golden dome, and terraced gardens.
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The original structure of the Shrine of the Báb in 1909, half-way up
the barren slope of Mount Carmel (left), and the mountainside today,
transformed into a series of garden terraces ascending from Ben Gurion
Avenue, one of Haifa's central thoroughfares (right).
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View from the Shrine of the Báb down the slope of Mount Carmel to
the German Colony in the 1930s (left), and from the same vantage point
today, with the fountains and terraced gardens descending from the Shrine to
Ben Gurion Avenue (right).
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View of the Shrine of the Báb from the crest of Mount Carmel in the
early 1950s (left) and today, showing the bridge built over Hatzionut
Avenue to connect the upper and lower Terraces (right).
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The Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb extending from the foot to the
crest of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
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The Shrine of the Báb and the Terraces at dusk. The Shrine is
illuminated every evening in memory of the Báb's incarceration in a mountain
fortress in northern Iran.
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