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- Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois was a Canadian architect who is best known as the designer of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Louis Bourgeois, in his youth, worked as a clerk in a church contractor's office Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and through this experience planned the construction of the Church of Saint-Wenceslas in 1892. He then married Marie Gronville, who died young after having three children. His wife's medical bills caused him to go into debt, and thus he moved to Montreal to work as an apprentice sculptor in Napoléon Bourassa's business. Mr. Bourassa sent Louis Bourgeois to Paris, France to study, but during his time in Paris, Mr. Bougeois left his studies and travelled to other countries including Italy, Greece, Egypt and Iran. He returned to North America in 1886 in Chicago, where he worked with Louis Sullivan. He then moved to California where he taught French to painter Paul de Longpré's daughters. He would then marry one of de Longpré daughters, Alice. In the winter of 1906 to 1907, while he was in New York City, Louis Bourgeois became a Bahá'í after he learned about the Bahá'í teaching on the unity of religions. He then moved to Teaneck, New Jersey to expand the Bahá'í community there. In 1920 Louis Bourgeois' design for the Bahá'í House of Worship in the United States was chosen by the delegates to the Bahá'í national convention. During the next decade he spent much time constructing and financing the structure, despite bouts of ill health. He died on August 20, 1930, at the age of 74, after a month of bad health. The Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois was opened in 1953.
- Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois fu un architeto bahai canadese noto prevalentemente per avere disegnato il tempio bahai di Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Dopo avere lavorato come impiegato nella cittadina di Trois-Rivières si trasferì per motivi familiari ed economici a Montreal per lavorare come apprendista scultore presso Napoléon Bourassa. Napoléon Bourassa inviò Louis Bourgeois a Parigi per studiare e perfezionarsi, ma Bourgeois preferì lasciare gli studi e viaggiare visitando altri paesi come l'Italia, la Grecia, l'Egitto e l'Iran. Bourgeois rientrò negli Usa nel 1886 a Chicago, dove lavorò con l'architetto americano Louis Henri Sullivan noto come "padre del modernismo. Successivamente si trasferì in California dove conobbe il pittore Paul de Longpré, di cui sposò la figlia Alice. Durante un suo soggiorno a New York City, nell'inverno tra il 1906 e il 1907 si convertì alla religione bahai divenendone un fervido sostenitore tanto da recarsi a Teaneck, nel New Jersey per espandervi la locale comunità bahai. Nel 1920 il suo progetto di tempio bahai da costruirsi a Wilmette fu scelto dalla Assemblea spirituale nazionale. Nel decennio successivo Bourgeois dedicò la maggior parte del suo tempo alla costruzione del tempio e al suo finanziamento, nonostante la sua salute peggiorasse. Louis Bourgeois morì il 20 agosto 1930 all'età di 74 anni. Il tempio di Wilmette da lui disegnato fu inaugurato nel 1953.
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- Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois was a Canadian architect who is best known as the designer of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Louis Bourgeois, in his youth, worked as a clerk in a church contractor's office Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and through this experience planned the construction of the Church of Saint-Wenceslas in 1892. He then married Marie Gronville, who died young after having three children.
- Jean-Baptiste Louis Bourgeois fu un architeto bahai canadese noto prevalentemente per avere disegnato il tempio bahai di Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Dopo avere lavorato come impiegato nella cittadina di Trois-Rivières si trasferì per motivi familiari ed economici a Montreal per lavorare come apprendista scultore presso Napoléon Bourassa.
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