From a message of the Universal House of Justice to the “Friends
assembled in the North Atlantic Conference in Reykjavik”, September 1971:
“The famous island in which you are now gathered, so
strategically placed between the two great continents flanking the vast oceanic
area which surrounds it, to which the Teachings of Christ were brought a
millennium ago, and which, in this Dispensation, was mentioned by the Centre of
the Covenant in His Tablets of the Divine Plan, first heard the Name of
Bahá'u'lláh in 1924 when the Hand of the Cause Amelia Collins stopped briefly
in Reykjavik and made the acquaintance of Holmfridur Arnadottir who
subsequently became the first Bahá'í of Iceland. Eleven years later the beloved
Martha Root spent a month in this land which she loved so well. On that
occasion, with the help of Holmfridur, the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh was widely
proclaimed in the press, on the radio and from the lecture platform.”
(The
Universal House of Justice, ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice,
1963-1986) (To read the entire message please visit: Messages to the Baha’i World
Community – by the Universal House of Justice)