page_title: Baháʼí pilgrimage
section_title: Current nine-day pilgrimage
hierarchical_section_title: Baháʼí pilgrimage / Current nine-day pilgrimage
caption_attribution_description: Baha'i Holy places in Israel
context_page_description: A Baháʼí pilgrimage currently consists of visiting the holy places in Haifa, Acre, and Bahjí at the Baháʼí World Centre in Northwest Israel. Baháʼís do not have access to other places designated as sites for pilgrimage.
  Baháʼu'lláh decreed pilgrimage in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to two places: the House of Baháʼu'lláh in Baghdad, and the House of the Báb in Shiraz. In two separate tablets, known as Suriy-i-Hajj, he prescribed specific rites for each of these pilgrimages. It is obligatory to make the pilgrimage, "if one can afford it and is able to do so, and if no obstacle stands in one's way". Baháʼís are free to choose between the two houses, as either has been deemed sufficient. Later, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá designated the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh at Bahjí as a site of pilgrimage. No rites have been prescribed for this.
  The designated sites for pilgrimage are not accessible to the majority of Baháʼís, as they are in Iraq and Iran respectively, and thus when Baháʼís currently refer to pilgrimage, it refers to a nine-day pilgrimage that occurs at the Baháʼí World Centre in Haifa and Akká in Israel.
context_section_description: The places that Baháʼís visit on the current nine-day pilgrimage at the Baháʼí World Centre include the following.  (Baháʼí World Centre buildings contains additional information.)
  Bahjí:
  Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh
  Mansion of Bahjí
  Haifa:
  Shrine of the Báb
  Baháʼí Terraces
  Arc
  Seat of the Universal House of Justice
  Seat of the International Teaching Centre
  Centre for the Study of the Sacred Texts
  International Archives
  Monument Gardens
  Site of the future House of Worship
  House of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
  Resting place of Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum
  Pilgrim Houses:
  Eastern Pilgrim House
  10 Haparsim Street
  4 Haparsim Street
  Akká:
  Garden of Ridván, Akká
  House of ʻAbbúd
  House of ʻAbdu'lláh Páshá
  Mazra'ih
  The nine-day pilgrimage is open only to Baháʼís and their spouses who have applied to go on pilgrimage.
caption: Baháʼí pilgrimage locations
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