The original structure of the Shrine of the Báb in 1909, half-way up
the barren slope of Mount Carmel (left, below), 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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