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Montréal Bahá'í Shrine

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Montreal Bahá'í Shrine
Montreal Bahá'í Shrine

Montréal Bahá'í Shrine is an important site to the followers of the Baháʼí Faith and a place of pilgrimage. A former house and residence of May and William Maxwell, it is the only private home in Canada where ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the son and the successor to the Baháʼí Faith's founder, stayed during his journeys to the West.

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Montréal Bahá'í Shrine
Pine Avenue West, Montreal Ville-Marie

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Pine Avenue West 1548
H3G 1A8 Montreal, Ville-Marie
Quebec, Canada
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