This Feast is the occasion when the Spiritual Assembly makes its reports to the community and invites both discussion of plans and suggestions for new and better methods of service.
Mashriqu'l-Adhkar( 34) Baha'u'llah left instructions that temples of worship should be built by His followers in every country and city.

To these temples He gave the name of "Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar," which means "Dawning Place of God's Praise." The Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar is to be a nine-sided building surmounted by a dome, and as beautiful as possible in design and workmanship.

It is to stand in a large garden adorned with fountains, trees and flowers, surrounded by a number of accessory buildings devoted to educational, charitable and social purposes, so that the worship of God in the temple may always be closely associated with reverent delight in the beauties of nature and of art, and with practical work for the amelioration of social conditions.( 35) In Persia, up till the present, Baha'is have been debarred from building temples for public worship, and so the first great Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar was built in I_sh_qabad,( 36) Russia.

'Abdu'l-Baha dedicated the site of the second Baha'i House of Worship, to stand on the shore of Lake Michigan a few miles north of Chicago, during His visit to America in 1912.( 37) In tablets referring to this "Mother Temple" of the West, 'Abdu'l-Baha writes as follows:-- Praise be to God, that, at this moment, from every country in the world, according to their various means, contributions are continually being sent toward the fund of the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in America....

From the day of Adam until now, such a thing has never been witnessed by man, that from the furthermost country of Asia contributions were forwarded to America.