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

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Robert Stauffer, History of the House of Baha'u'llah in Tihran, Iran, bahai-library.com.
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> History of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tihran, Iran
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> 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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