"O people of the world! Build ye houses of worship throughout the lands in the name of Him Who is the Lord of all religions. Make them as perfect as is possible in the world of being…" 

— Bahá’u’lláh (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 29)

 
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Terrace and garden construction

 

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A crane lifts one of the new trees into place
Four 50-year-old diseased crabapple trees were replaced at the outer edge of the garden just east of the main entrance walkway. Each new tree, weighing around 7,000 pounds including an established root ball, was lifted with a crane and placed in a 10-foot wide hole.


The last structural concrete has been poured for the reflecting pool leading to the Temple from the corner of Linden and Sheridan. Concrete Studio w concrete mixer has been installed to allow continuous production of precast monumental stairs weighing up to a ton each, at the same time as smaller pieces are being produced on a separate production line. A new mold was fabircated for one of the 18 levels of monumental stair steps. Molds used in the 1989 repair of steps near the main entrance have been reconditioned to be used again for most of the current work. 2,750 pieces of epoxy-coated welded-wire steel reinforcing were received for the monumental steps.

 

 
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