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In Persia, up till the present, Baha'is have been debarred from building temples for public worship, and so the first great Mashriqu'l- Adhkar was built in Ishqabad,4 Russia. 'Abdu'l-Baha dedicated the site of the second Baha'i House of Worship, to stand on the shore of Lake Michigan a few miles north of Chicago, during His visit to America in 1912.5 (120:3) In tablets referring to this "Mother Temple" of the West, 'Abdu'l-Baha writes as follows: -
(120:3)
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