Bahá’í Lotus Temple
Bahá'í house of worship shaped as a lotus bloom, clad in white marble from Greece, open to all.
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This guide to the Bahá'í Lotus Temple in Delhi follows architect Fariborz Sahba, commissioned in 1976 to design a house of worship that could welcome every faith without belonging to any one of them. It traces his months studying temples across India before settling on the lotus as a shape sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains alike, and the years of engineering that turned the idea into twenty-seven free-standing marble petals. Look for the nine surrounding pools — they're not ornamental, they're part of how the building breathes.
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