Baháʼí House of Worship
The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, is a Baháʼí temple. It is the second Baháʼí House of Worship constructed and the oldest one still standing.Photo: Wenbinbin2010, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Bahá’í temple
- Description: Bahá’í temple in Wilmette, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Baha’i House of Worship for the North American Continent”, “Bahá’í House of Worship for the North American Continent”, “Bahai Temple”, and “Baháʼí House of Worship for North America”
- Address: 100 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gillson Park and Linden station.
Linden station
Metro station
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Linden is an 'L' station and the northern terminus of CTA's Purple Line. The station is located at 349 Linden Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois. Linden station is situated 1,800 feet west of Baháʼí House of Worship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wilmette and Central Street.
Wilmette
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Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.
Central Street
Neighborhood
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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Central Street is situated 1½ miles southwest of Baháʼí House of Worship.
Kenilworth
Village
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Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 15 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,514. Kenilworth is situated 2 miles northwest of Baháʼí House of Worship.
Baháʼí House of Worship
- Categories: building, temple, place of worship, and religion
- Location: New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.07444° or 42° 4′ 28″ northLongitude
-87.68429° or 87° 41′ 4″ westElevation
604 feet (184 metres)Height
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
86JJ38F8+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 369160462OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=templeWikidata ID
Q4843063
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Baháʼí House of Worship” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مشرق أذكار (ويلميت، إلينوي)”
- Arabic: “مشرق أذكار”
- Chinese: “北美洲靈曦堂”
- Chinese: “巴哈伊灵曦堂”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيت العباده البهائى”
- Esperanto: “Bahaa Domo de Adorado por Nord-Amerika Kontinento”
- French: “Maison d’adoration bahá’íe pour l’Amérique du Nord”
- German: “Bahá’í House of Worship for the North American Continent”
- Hebrew: “בית התפילה הבהאי בשיקאגו”
- Hebrew: “בית התפילה הבהאי בשיקגו”
- Hebrew: “המקדש הבהאי (אילינוי)”
- Persian: “مشرقالاذکار شیکاگو”
- Persian: “مشرقالاذکار”
- Portuguese: “Casa de Adoração Bahá’í em Illinois”
- Portuguese: “Casa de Adoração Bahá’í”
- Russian: “Храм бахаи в Уилметте”
- Spanish: “Casa de Adoración Bahá’í para el Continente Norteamericano”
- Spanish: “Casa de Adoración bahaí”
- Vietnamese: “Đền thờ Bahá’í ở Bắc Mỹ”
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