The Baha’i year is divided into 19 months, each of 19 days, and  so there are four (or in a leap year, five) Intercalary Days, which occur between 26 February and 1 March inclusive. The Intercalary Days are given over to acts of charity, hospitality, the giving gift, and supporting those who are sick, needy […]

After forty years of imprisonment and exile, Bahá’u’lláh passed away peacefully at the age of 74, at Bahji, where he had been allowed to live outside the prison city of Akka for some years, though still officially being a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire. He is interred there. At Bahji, his shrine, surrounded by a […]