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[Justone]

http://www.sahbaarchitect.com/

http://www.bahaipictures.com/

[Freethought110]

It is highly specious argumentation to specify such architecture as a uniquely "baha'i" form of architecture. Both the archives building and the seat of the uhj in Haifa are obviously Greco-Roman. The seat of the uhj is obviously a direct replica of the Pantheon in Rome which once housed the Roman senate. Even its columns are exactly the same as they are Corinthian. The archives building is a cross between the Parthenon and other similar Doric Greek temple styles of the 5th-3rd centuries BCE, such as in Athens and Delphi. This says alot about Shoghi Effendi who was obviously taken in completely by Greek and Roman styles above all else.
The dome on the shrine of the Bab is the only exception, and that is arguably a synthesis of three existing styles: the Byzantine dome (i.e. Aya Sophia), the Eastern Islamic (i.e. Isfahan's Masjid-e Shah & Ali Qapu) and the Eastern Orthodox Christian (specifically Russian, i.e. St Basil's in Moscow) style of Church domes. The temple in Wilmette is obviously a cross between a medieval Jewish synagogue and a 10th century Gothic cathedral. The lotus temple in New Delhi is possibly an exception. But even there a modernized Buddhist and Jain forms can be detected. Nothing unique there to call it specifically and uniquely baha'i.

[Unknown 257]

The Lotus temple in India is really special. I hope to visit it one day.

I have visited the Bahai garden in Haifa, it is lovely but the architecture is nothing special.