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In the North American continent, more particularly, the members of a flourishing community, inspired by the blessings bestowed by Abdu'l- Baha, as well as by His example and the acts He performed in the course of His prolonged visit to their country, gave an earnest of the magnificent enterprise they were to carry through in later years. They purchased the twelve remaining lots forming part of the site of their projected Temple, selected, during the sessions of their 1920 Convention, the design of the French Canadian Baha'i architect, Louis Bourgeois, placed the contract for the excavation and the laying of its foundations, and succeeded soon after in completing the necessary arrangements for the construction of its basement: measures which heralded the stupendous efforts which, after Abdu'l- Baha's ascension, culminated in the erection of its superstructure and the completion of its exterior ornamentation.
(303:3)
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