Home›Sources›Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)SourcesStatement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)Baha'i World News ServiceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/statement-universal-house-justice-opening-terraces-mount-carmel-bwns.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/statement-universal-house-justice-opening-terraces-mount-carmel-bwnsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-statement-of-the-universal-house-of-just, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/statement-universal-house-justice-opening-terraces-mount-carmel-bwns}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe Baha'i World News Service's own account reproduces the Universal House of Justice's statement delivered at the 22 May 2001 ceremony marking the completion of the nineteen terraced gardens on Mount Carmel, calling the finished terraces a monument to the triumph of love over hate and the fulfillment of a plan Baha'u'llah conceived when he visited the mountain to select the Bab's burial site more than a century earlier.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (20 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2The Baha'i community's own official news service, tier 2, matching the reliability tier already carried by its other entries on the map, used here for the Universal House of Justice's own statement at the 22 May 2001 ceremony, corroborated by Wikipedia's more precisely dated account of the terraces' construction and public opening below.NotesWell-attestedUsed for the 22 May 2001 ceremony and the Universal House of Justice's statement at it.CitationPublisherWell-attestedBaha'i World News Service (Baha'i International Community)URLWell-attestedhttps://news.bahai.org/story/119Source TypeWell-attestedorganization primary sourceCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithBaha'u'llah, Figures Well-attested This source names Baha'u'llah directly: "hate and the fulfillment of a plan Baha'u'llah conceived when he visited the mountain to select the Bab's burial site more than a century earlier."Source Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)tier 2Mount Carmel, Sacred Sites Well-attested This source names Mount Carmel directly: "of the nineteen terraced gardens on Mount Carmel, calling the finished terraces a monument to the triumph of love over hate and the fulfillment of a plan Baha'u'llah conceived when he visited the..."Source Statement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)tier 2Claims Backed By This Source (20 claims)This source backs 20 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSpread Events, 12 claims: 3 well-attested, 8 holds, 1 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.Well-attested9SourcesStatement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)Spread EventsThe Terraces on Mount Carmel Are Completed and OpenedHolds10SourcesStatement of the Universal House of Justice for the Opening of the Terraces on Mount Carmel (Baha'i World News Service)Spread EventsThe Terraces on Mount Carmel Are Completed and OpenedGeneral References1Spread EventsThe Terraces on Mount Carmel Are Completed and OpenedComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year