...the International Archives of the Faith… was completed in
the summer of 1957 as one of the last major achievements of Shoghi Effendi's
Guardianship and… set the style for the remaining structures which, as
described by him, were to be raised in the course of time in the form of a
far-flung arc on the slope of Mount Carmel.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 5
June, 1975; Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986’)