Gwen Clayborne, a Baha'i from Glencoe, Ill., was featured recently on the Chicago-based public television program, "30 Good Minutes."

Award-winning artist Roger Bansemer and his wife, Sarah, are currently travelling across the U.S. working on a TV series called "Painting on Location with Roger Bansemer."

The House of Worship staff was busy lately answering questions from students working on reports for world religion, sociology and architecture classes as well as from journalism students from nearby Northwestern University.

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May 2009 update: Visitor Center and Bookstore Re-opens

The Visitor Center and Bookstore re-opened to the public on May 8, 2009 after being closed for one year. Inside, welcome banners, photos with quotes from the Baha'i writings, and new display panels, greet visitors.

The next holy day event at the Baha'i House of Worship will be held at 1 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, with a special devotional program commemorating the Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha, who died at his home in Haifa, Israel, at approximately 1 a.m. on Nov. 28, 1921, at age 77.   

 Baha'is in more than 200 countries and territories are celebrating a four-day festival involving hospitality, gift giving, charity and social gatherings.

Do you sing like a songbird and enjoy performing with other talented singers? Then you should know that the Baha'i House of Worship Choir is looking for a few good voices.

Prayer services at the Baha'i House of Worship seem to be simple affairs: a series of readers stepping up to the lectern to recite, chant or sing prayers.

To enable further restoration of the Baha'i House of Worship and begin construction of the new Visitors Center, the lower level of the temple, which currently houses the Visitors Center, bookstore and restrooms, is closed to the public for approximately one year, from May 19, 2008, to May 2009. The auditorium (prayer hall), on the upper level of the House of Worship, remains open for prayers and meditation and guides continue to offer tours of the temple. (Call 847-853-2300 to arrange for group tours.)

Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’u’llah’s eldest son and Successor, had a close association with the House of Worship even before it was built.