Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh

Culture of origin: Bahá’í · Cultural

Holiday sources: Bahá'í Faith · Iran

Bahá'u'lláh died on 29 May 1892 at the Mansion of Bahjí outside Acre, where he spent his last years, still formally a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Tehran in 1817, he had been jailed in the Síyáh-Chál dungeon and banished from Iran for his part in the Bábí movement. He is buried beside the mansion; his shrine is the point Bahá'ís face in their daily obligatory prayers, and in 2008 it was added to UNESCO's World Heritage list.