Following the execution, Baha'i accounts describe the Bab's remains being rescued by followers and kept hidden, moved secretly between locations inside Iran over several decades to protect them from discovery and desecration by hostile authorities, a task Baha'u'llah is said to have directed from exile. The remains were eventually transported out of Iran and, following instructions Baha'u'llah had given before his own death, interred permanently on Mount Carmel in Haifa, in a shrine whose construction Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah's son and successor, oversaw in the early twentieth century.
The Shrine of the Bab, with its distinctive golden dome completed later in the twentieth century, is today one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the Baha'i Faith and, together with the surrounding terraced gardens on Mount Carmel, forms part of a site recognized on the UNESCO World Heritage List for its significance to the Baha'i religious tradition.
The anniversary of the martyrdom is kept as one of the nine Baha'i holy days on which work is suspended, and the event is remembered within Baha'i communities worldwide as one of the central formative sacrifices of their faith's early history, commemorated alongside the Bab's earlier declaration and the later ascension of Baha'u'llah.