Eleventh day of Ridvan 2012
"Midafternoon on the eleventh day ofthe Ridvan festival one hundred years ago,
Abdu'1-Baha, standing before an audience several hundred strong,
lifted a workman's axe and pierced the turf covering the Temple site
at Grosse Pointe, north of Chicago.
Those invited to break the ground with Him on that spring day
came from diverse backgrounds—Norwegian,
Indian, French, Japanese, Persian, indigenous American, to name but a few."
Universal House of Justice Ridvan Message 2012
Eleventh day of Ridvan 2012
"Midafternoon on the eleventh day ofthe Ridvan festival one hundred years ago,
Abdu'1-Baha, standing before an audience several hundred strong,
lifted a workman's axe and pierced the turf covering the Temple site
at Grosse Pointe, north of Chicago.
Those invited to break the ground with Him on that spring day
came from diverse backgrounds—Norwegian,
Indian, French, Japanese, Persian, indigenous American, to name but a few."
Universal House of Justice Ridvan Message 2012