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Visit The Garden of Ridván (Akka), Acre, Israel
The Garden of Ridván (lit. garden of paradise) is a Bahá'í holy place situated just outside Acre within modern Israel. Originally known as the 'garden of Na‘mayn', it was rented by `Abdu'l-Bahá for Bahá'u'lláh where he enjoyed spending the later part of his life, after years in a desolate prison cell. Although it shares the same name it does not have the same significance of the Garden of Ridván, Baghdad and no connection to the festival of Ridván.
During the 1930s and 1940s the island setting of the garden disappeared, as a result of a draining project against malaria. In 2010 a three-year restoration and conservation project of the garden and the original water canals surrounding it was completed, after which the Ridvan Garden, referred to by Bahá'u'lláh as 'Our Verdant Isle', became an island once again.
In 2019, in its annual Ridván message, the Universal House of Justice announced that the future Shrine of `Abdu'l-Bahá is to be constructed in the vicinity of the Garden of Ridván.
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