The Bahá'í Media BankMost recent rhotosTodayBahá'í Media BankKnight of Baha’u’llah for Labrador, Bruce Matthew.8219Augusto Lopez-Claros, center left, and to his left, Fulya Vekiloglu, in remarks at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, both pointed out the overall benefits to society when women and girls take their rightful place equal to men and boys. They spok8206Two representatives of the Baha'i International Community addressed a High-Level Roundtable on "Financing for Gender Equality" at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women on 25 February 2008.8205Baha'is and their friends in Solano, north of Manila in the Philippines, pose for a photograph at their Ayyam-i-Ha gathering in 2007 at the local Baha'i center.
8201 Interior of the room of Bahá’u’lláh at Mazra‘ih.8192An aerial photograph of the village of Mazra‘ih showing the mansion where Bahá’u’lláh lived. The Mediterranean Sea is in the distance.8188Tutors and children gathered for class in Sahlabad, outside Shiraz, Iran. Such classes were shut down by the government in 2006.8179The Mansion of Mazra‘ih8171The two windows farthest right on the second floor show the room that Bahá’u’lláh occupied in the prison.8169The pines of Bahjí on the land of the Jamal brothers, site of the dinner which signaled that Bahá’u’lláh could leave the boundaries of the walled city.8168The aqueduct to carry water to ‘Akká was built in about 1815 to replace an earlier one destroyed by Napoleon. By the time of Bahá’u’lláh's arrival, it had fallen into disrepair.8167A street scene in ‘Akká.8165The House of ‘Abbúd.8163Bahá’u’lláh's room in the house of ‘Údí Khammár, where He revealed the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.8162Bahá’u’lláh's room in the house of ‘Údí Khammár. After He moved to the adjoining House of ‘Abbúd, this became the room of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.8160The skylight of the prison area, now restored, where Mírzá Mihdí fell.8159During the restoration of the prison it was decided to leave untouched the floor where Mírzá Mihdí fell. The stairs to the roof are in the background.8158A view of some of the cells that were occupied by the exiles in Akka. The room of Bahá’u’lláh is on the left.8157The barracks square of the prison. Bahá’u’lláh was first held in a room adjacent to the square and later moved to his cell on the second floor of the building in the center of the photo.8156A recent photograph of the restored entrance to the citadel of ‘Akká.8155