Just north of Chicago, in the suburb of Wilmette, stands this amazing piece of architecture, the Baha’i House of Worship. It is a fantastic sight, standing approximately 13 stories high. The entire interior is open space from the ground floor to the top of the dome.

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Construction began in 1921 was completed in 1953, with a delay of several years during the Great Depression and World War II. The Wilmette House of Worship is the largest and the oldest surviving Bahá’í House of Worship. Known by Baha’is as the “Mother Temple of the West” and formally as the “Bahá’í House of Worship for the North American Continent”, it stands in north suburban Cook County, on the shores of Lake Michigan. –Wikipedia