Sacred Stairway

The Story of the Shrine of the Báb, Volume III: 1963–2001

Series: The Story of the Shrine of the Báb

Sacred Stairway is the final volume in a trilogy which tells the dramatic and inspiring story of the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, Israel, from 1850 to 2001. The first two volumes, Journey to a Mountain and Coronation on Carmel, won a warm
international reception.

Now the story moves on to describe the successful construction in the 1990s of a stairway with 19 garden terraces stretching one kilometre up the steep northern slopes of Mount Carmel.

The story of the project of the Universal House of Justice to build the “Pathway of the Kings and Rulers of the world” is one of devotion, sacrifice and supreme expertise in architecture, engineering and horticulture.

Now the story moves on to describe the successful construction in the 1990s of a stairway with 19 garden terraces stretching one kilometre up the steep northern slopes of Mount Carmel.

Categories:
About The Báb |
Biography, Holy Family |
History and Context of the Faith

Contributors:: Michael Day (Author)
Format: Softcover book | 240 pages
Dimensions: 160 x 230 x 20 mm | 530 g
Publisher: George Ronald Publisher, 2019
Note: 40 illustrations
ISBN: 9780853986225
SKU: DAY_SACRE

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Categories:
About The Báb |
Biography, Holy Family |
History and Context of the Faith

Contributors:: Michael Day (Author)
Format: Softcover book | 240 pages
Dimensions: 160 x 230 x 20 mm | 530 g
Publisher: George Ronald Publisher, 2019
Note: 40 illustrations
ISBN: 9780853986225
SKU: DAY_SACRE

About Michael Day (author)

Michael V. Day is an award-winning newspaper journalist who was the editor of the Bahá'í World News Service at the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa, Israel from 2003 to 2006, where he lived and worked within a few hundred metres of the Shrine of the Báb.

Born and raised in New Zealand, he was briefly a lawyer before becoming a newspaper reporter, leader writer and editor. He first visited the Shrine of the Báb while on pilgrimage in 1980. After moving to Australia in 1988 with his wife, Chris, and sons Thomas and George, he was a journalist with Murdoch University in Perth before joining the staff of The West Australian newspaper where he was an education and feature writer. He was then appointed the newspaper's Asia Desk Chief, specialising in covering Indonesia.

Michael was formerly a foreign affairs advisor. These days he researches and writes Baha'i history. Michael and Chris live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.