The Baha'i community has been instrumental in shaping the modern landscape of the German Colony in Haifa, primarily through the development and extension of its extensive gardens. The German Colony's central north-south thoroughfare is now famously connected to Mount Carmel via these newly rehabilitated Bahai Gardens, which are also referred to as the present-day Bahai complex. The significance of the Baha'i presence extends to urban development, as the Haifa Municipality's restoration project for the German Colony in the late 1990s—which was funded by the Ministry of Tourism—was explicitly assisted by the wealthy Bahai community’s newly developed and extended Gardens. This restoration effort was specifically fueled by the newly developed gardens, with the goal of attracting anticipated millennium tourists. Historically, the site of the present-day Bahai complex was the upper terminus of the vineyards planted by the original German Templers, stretching up the mountain slope from their dwellings.
(Reconstructed urbanity: The rebirth of Palestinian urban life in Haifa by Rachel Kallus, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel)
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