Mansion of Bahji

The Mansion of Bahji is a summer house in Acre, Israel where Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, died in 1892. His shrine is placed subsequent to this house. The entire area became called Al-Bahja. The vicinity turned into originally a lawn planted by way of Sulayman Pasha, who changed into the ruler of Acre, for his daughter Fatimih, and he named it Bahji. Later the region become in addition beautified with the aid of Abdu'llah Pasha, and in 1831 while Ibrahim Pasha besieged Acre he used the property as his headquarters.

The assets was well known for its stunning gardens and pond fed by way of an aqueduct. The belongings then fell into the ownership of a Christian circle of relatives, the Jamals. In 1870 Udi Khammar, a rich merchant from Acre who also at the start owned the House of Abbud, sold a number of the land from the Jamals near the mansion of Abdu'llah Pasha and built the Mansion of Bahji, over an earlier and smaller building, which Abdu'llah Pasha had had built for his mom. Udi Khammar had constructed the residence for his own family, and when he died become buried in a tomb within the south-east nook of the wall immediately around the constructing.