terraces

The Mount Camel Terraces Official

Opening

This project is an individual initiative by Jason Merk, merk@ms55.hinet.net

The Shrine of the Báb

silhouetted by

the rising sun.

Sunrise over the Terraces.

Detail of decorative elements at sunrise.

View of the Shrine of the Báb from the crest of Mount Carmel in the early 1950s.

Today, showing the bridge built over

Hatzionut Avenue to connect the upper and

lower Terraces.

Original structure of the Shrine of the Báb in 1909.

Today with its colonnade, golden

dome, and terraced gardens.

View from the Shrine of the Báb down the slope of Mount

Carmel to the

German Colony in

the 1930s.

From the same

vantage point today,

with the fountains

and terraced gardens

descending from the Shrine to

Ben Gurion Avenue.

The original structure of the Shrine of the Báb in 1909, half-way up the barren slope of Mount

Carmel.

The mountainside today, transformed into a series

of garden terraces ascending from Ben

Gurion Avenue.

The Terraces

of the Shrine of the Báb

extending from the

foot to the crest of Mount

Carmel in Haifa, Israel.

Aerial view of

the Shrine of the

Báb and the

lower terraces

.

The central staircase leading up the Terraces to the Shrine of the Báb.

Fountains, flowers, and stone

balustrades decorate each

terrace.

Crushed tile paths and ponds on Terrace Eight.

View of the formal gardens along the central axis of the

Terraces.

View of the formal gardens along the central axis of the

Terraces.

Detail of

decorative

eagle.

Decorative fountain illuminated in the

evening.

The illuminated Shrine of the

Báb, from below.

The Shrine of the Báb

illuminated in the evening, with Ben Gurion Avenue below.

The Terraces leading down to Ben Gurion Avenue, illuminated in the evening.

The illuminated Shrine of the Báb and Terraces, seen from Ben Gurion Avenue at night.

Aerial view of the Shrine of the Báb.

The Shrine of the Báb, located on

Terrace Ten, halfway up the slope of Mount

Carmel.

Formal gardens immediately above the Shrine of the

Báb.

The upper terraces viewed from the bridge over Hatzionut Street.

Aerial view of Terrace Nineteen at the crest

of Mount Carmel.

View of Terrace Nineteen at the crest

of Mount Carmel.

Balustrades and decorative eagles on

Terrace Nineteen.

Balustrades and decorative eagles on

Terrace Nineteen.

The grand staircase leading from the top terrace to the Louis

Promenade.

Wrought iron gate leading to Terrace

Nineteen at the crest of Mount

Carmel.

Aerial view of the complex of Bahá'í

administrative buildings adjacent to

the Terraces.

The Shrine is illuminated every evening in memory of the Báb's incarceration in a

mountain fortress in northern Iran.