Shrine of the Báb, Baháʼí shrine on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel

The Shrine of the Báb is a stone edifice on Mount Carmel, its golden dome set on an 18-windowed drum above an octagon. A Baveno rose granite colonnade and Chiampo stone arches surround it, with emerald green and scarlet mosaics on the balustrade and fire-gilded bronze symbols of the Greatest Name at the four corners. The interior, centered on the tomb, is for quiet prayer.

Baháʼu'lláh chose the site on Mount Carmel in 1891 and showed it to his son ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. The Báb's remains, brought from Iran, were buried on 21 March 1909 in a six-room mausoleum of local stone; three rooms were added in 1929. In 1949 Shoghi Effendi laid the first threshold stone of the superstructure, completed in 1953 to a design by Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell, with the dome's engineering by H. Neumann of the Technion.

This structure represents the foremost pilgrimage site for members of the Baháʼí Faith and contains the remains of the Báb, regarded as the herald of their religion. Thousands of believers travel here annually to pray and experience the spiritual importance of this location. The complex serves as a central symbol of their religious community.

The shrine interior is reserved for quiet prayer; no ceremonies or services are held there. A translation of the Tablet of Visitation hangs on the wall in Arabic and English. The building sits halfway up Mount Carmel on the axis of the Templer Colony road, now Carmel Avenue, and is reached on foot from the surrounding gardens.

Nineteen separate garden terraces extend downward from the building along Mount Carmel, forming geometric patterns visible throughout the cityscape. Each terrace represents one of the first nineteen followers of the Báb. The number nineteen holds particular symbolic meaning within the religion. More than 150 gardeners maintain the grounds daily with plants from five continents.