Work starts on the House of Worship in Chile

The CBC.ca website has an interesting article on the work of Canadian based architect, Siamak Hariri, whose design was chosen for the new Baha'i House of Worship, the mother temple of South America, to be built near Santiago, Chile.

The winning design from a field of 185 contenders, Hariri’s blueprint will draw in much natural light through a two-layer sheath of shimmering white alabaster and cast-glass. The hillside site will absorb light during the day and emit it at night, like a lantern, framed dramatically by the Andean backdrop.

See an architectural rendering of this new temple and other Bahá'í Houses of Worship throughout the world.

Siamak Hariri was born in 1958 in Bonn, Germany, to Iranian parents who had been exiled from their predominantly Muslim homeland because of their belief in the Bahá’í Faith. His parents then moved to Canada.