Visiting the Baha'i Temple

My Chicagoland teacher buddy recommended going to visit the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, Illinois. She said that whenever people came to visit her, she'd take them to the temple because it was such a beautiful, peaceful place.

In all the time we lived in Illinois, we'd never gone to the temple even though we'd known about it and sometimes even passed by it. But now... here we were visiting from Hawaii and we finally decided to go and see it.

Tiffany drove us to the temple and yes, we were very impressed. 

Here is the Go Visit Chicago website I found this explains what the temple is about. 

https://www.govisitchicago.com/bahai-house-of-worship-in-wilmette-illinois/
Architecture as a Spiritual Conversation
One of the most beautiful things about the Wilmette temple is how its design speaks both to faith and to art.

The Bahai House of Worship in Wilmette is designed by the architect Louis Bourgeois. You will be surprised to see that Bahai Temple features symbols of various faiths carved on the walls including the Star of David, the swastika and the symbol of Islam.

Also, construction includes number “nine”, yes it has nine entrances, nine alcoves, nine fountains in garden. 

Looking up what the Baha’i faith is about, I learned it is trying to combine all the religions into one. I like that concept very much, but I really don’t know enough about it.

This is from Wikipedia:

The Baháʼí Faith is a religion, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.

Whatever the case, we walked around the temple with the nine entrances and gardens in front of each one and entered the temple as well which had a very peaceful serene feel to it. 
 
We were very glad to have come and experienced the peace of it at this very nonpeaceful time.