History of the House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran, Iran
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History of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran, Iran

Robert Stauffer, editor

1978

The following history was received during my visitation to the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran (on July 9, 1978), from a member of the East-West Pilgrimage Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Iran. Since the Iranian revolution, so far as I know, the House remains standing, but was confiscated from the Bahá'ís and is now a home for one of the Shi'a clerics. - Rob Stauffer

The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran, being the birth-place of the Blessed
Beauty as well as His residence in
His childhood, is one of the holiest historical Bahá'í Shrines of Iran.

The land for this House was purchased in 1800 by Bahá'u'lláh's father,
Mirza Buzurg-i-Nuri. The
construction of the House was completed in 1802. The House was called
"Saray-i-Naw Sakht" or "The
Newly built House". It was later known as "Hayat-i-Bagh".
This was the first house built by Bahá'u'lláh's father in Tihran. The
adjacent buildings were later added to
this main House.
This House is located in Udlajan district of Tihran and in days gone by,
along with six other houses,
comprised the houses of Mirza Buzurg-i-Nuri.
After the murder of the Chief Minister Qa'im Maqam-Farahani, Mirza Aqasi
succeeded him. Haji Mirza
Aqasi did not spare any effort to eliminate his potential rivals from the
political scene. One of them being
Bahá'u'lláh's father who was on intimate terms with the late Chief
Minister. Mirza Aqasi first dismissed
Mirza Buzurg from the post of Governor of Borujerd and Bakhtiari and
later through various schemes
attempted to harm him. His next move was to persuade and force Zia'u'l
Saltanih, the daughter of Fath-i-
Ali Shah , one of the wives of Mirza Buzurg, to divorce him. In payment
of the large dowery of this lady
Mirza Buzurg was forced to vacate and sell this House as well as all the
adjacent houses.

Mirza Buzurg sought another residence and the Blessed Beauty took
independently another House in
Shimiran Gate, the present Paminar district of Tihran. In the Epistle to
the Son of the Wolf He writes:

"..In the early days, we all lived in one house which was sold in auction
for a negligible sum, and the two
brothers, Farman-Farma and Hissamu-Saltanih, purchased it and divided it
between themselves. After this
occurred, We separated from our brother (Mirza Rida Quli). He established
his residence close to the
entrance of Masjidi-Shah, whilst We lived near [the]Gate of Shimiran."

The houses of Mirza Buzurg, as already mentioned, were purchased in
auction by the two brothers, sons of
Abbas Mirza, the Crown Prine of Fath-i-Ali Shah, and later on these
houses changed hands.

In 92 B.E. (1936) the Beloved Guardian instructed the N.S.A. of Iran to
set up a committee for the Holy
Places in Iran. The first step taken by this committee was to find and
purchase the House of Bahá'u'lláh in
Tihran. After years of search and study of the relevant documents and
deeds, and having established the
authenticity of the House, it was purchased on the 25th of June 1942.

After about a year or two the small garden and yard adjacent to the
House, which was one of the six
annexed buildings, was also acquired.

In the course of 108 years of the life of this House naturally some
alterations were introduced. At the
instruction of the Beloved Guardian the committee undertook the
restoration and repair work in order to
bring it back to the original form. Lately this work of restoration and
repair has continued with the
collaboration of the Omana Company.

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-- History of the House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran, Iran (Used by permission of the curator)