Friday, March 30, 2007

Twin Holy Days

One cool thing about the timing of when I arrived at the Baha'i World Centre is that I was able to celebrate the birthdays of the Bab and Baha'u'llah for the year 163 B.E. a second time! That's because in the Holy Land the lunar calendar is used to observe the Twin Birthdays, called such because with the lunar calendar the Holy Days fall back-to-back. Compared to the solar calendar, in which the Birth of the Bab is on 20 October and the Birth of Baha'u'llah is 12 November, the Twin Birthdays move up the gregorian calendar about two weeks each year.
With Jared in the Concourse of the Seat of the Universal House of Justice before the program for the Birth of the Bab.
With Katherine in the Bahji Visitors' Centre before the program for the Birth of Baha'u'llah.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I just looked at all of your flicker pics. They're great!