The garden by the Tigris.
On the eve of being exiled from Baghdad to Constantinople in April 1863, Bahá'u'lláh crossed the river to a garden and told his companions who he was. He stayed twelve days. The garden was called Najíbíyyih; Bahá'ís call it Ridván, paradise, and the twelve days are the holiest period in the calendar.
In April 1863 the Ottoman authorities, under Persian pressure, ordered Bahá'u'lláh out of Baghdad to Constantinople. Before departing he crossed the Tigris to the Najíbíyyih garden, where he stayed twelve days while his family and companions prepared for the journey, and there announced to those with him the claim he had held privately since the Black Pit eleven years earlier — that he was the one the Báb had foretold, Him Whom God shall make manifest. The garden is called Ridván, paradise, and the twelve days constitute the Most Great Festival. The accounts describe roses piled so high in the tent that visitors could not see each other across them and the gardener bringing them daily. The date is 21 April in the modern reckoning, and the festival is why the Bahá'í administrative year turns then. The garden itself no longer exists as it was; the site in Baghdad has been developed, and the House of Bahá'u'lláh in the city was demolished in 2013.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideasSign in to open the first thread. Everything here is attributed.