The Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí, in a house outside Akká where he spent his last years, is the Qiblih — the point every Bahá'í in the world faces when saying the obligatory prayer, every day, for their whole life. Pilgrims remove their shoes at the door and enter only the outer room, going no further; the inner chamber holding the remains is not entered. Accounts of the experience are strikingly uniform in what they report: quiet, an unwillingness to leave, and a sense of the ordinariness of the building being part of the point. The surrounding gardens are formal and heavily maintained. The asymmetry worth noting is that most Bahá'ís will never stand there — pilgrimage places are limited and expensive, waiting lists run to years — and that the Iranian Bahá'ís, who live where the faith began and who constitute one of its largest and most persecuted communities, cannot travel to Israel at all, and so face daily toward a place they will not see.