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MAŠREQ AL-AḎKĀR
With regard to the building and design of the Mašreq al-Aḏkārs, Bahāʾ-Allāh states: “Make them as perfect as is possible in the world of being.” Writing in 1955 to the German Bahais, Shoghi Effendi considered that the Mašreq al-Aḏkār should not be built in ultra-modern style, but be “graceful in outline,” with a “delicate architectural beauty.”
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GOLESTĀNA, ʿALI-AKBAR
(b. 1857-58; d. 1901), calligrapher, scholar, and mystic of late 19th-century Persia.