(Baha’i News, no. 19, August 1927)
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April 12, 2018
Johanna Sorensen – The first Baha’i in Denmark
“The Danish people are fine in calibre and have some new and
very good ideas about education and culture for the masses,” writes Miss Martha
Root, who reached Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 28, 1927. Miss Johanna
Sorensen, a beautiful Baha’i and the first believer in Denmark, had arranged a
splendid program of events. April twenty-eighth, the two Baha’is visited the
three largest newspapers and explained about the Cause to the editors and gave
them literature. Miss Sorensen had translated into Danish and published “What
is the Baha’i Movement” and “Baha’u’llah and His Message,” both by Dr.
Esslemont and these attractive booklets were a great help. English books were
also given and a photograph of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Three articles appeared during the
week, a woman writer came to the hotel and next day published an interview.
Books were placed in the Royal Library which is Denmark’s greatest library. A
letter was written to the King and Queen and Crown Prince of Denmark and left
with three Baha’i books at the palace. Their Majesties were not in Denmark at
this time.