The Baháʼí Faith continues a tradition found in Islam of not using depictions in art of people considered a Manifestation of God.
There exist several photographs and paintings of both the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh, and these are viewed by Baháʼís on rare occasions, typically on an organized pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel.
The existence of images of the religion's founders is not offensive to Baháʼís.
However, they are encouraged to not display them in private homes or in public, and to treat them with a special degree of reverence and respect.
Shoghi Effendi, the appointed head of the religion from 1921 to 1957, wrote: Shoghi Effendi has also written in the Directives from the Guardian regarding the portrait of the Báb: