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ONE-OF-A-KIND
WONDER SHOWCASE
One of only seven in the world The new Halim Time &
and the only one in North Glass Museum brings
America, the Bahá’í House of to Evanston the
Worship is the largest and the world’s first museum
oldest surviving Bahá’í House of dedicated solely to
Worship. Voted one of the clocks and stained
Seven Wonders of Illinois, glass. The museum
visitors stand in awe viewing its features 1,100
walls of lace-like ornamentation clocks from around
and its 135-foot dome. the globe and 80
stained glass
pieces—some as
tall as 25 feet—in
a newly constructed
five-story building.
Some clocks’ screws are
so small that workers must
use a microscope to wind them!