1951: Local Spiritual Assembly of Cairo, Egypt - First time women were elected to serve in Muslim counties

 

(Baha'i News, December 1951)

1982: Baha’i representatives made a presentation to the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives concerning the persecution of the Baha'is in Iran

 

(World Order magazine, Spring 1982)

1949: First Regional Teaching Conference in Brazil

 

(Baha'i News, December 1949)

1942: Study Class conducted by Miss Adelaide Sharp, Tihran, Iran

(Baha'i News, Feb. 1943)

1942- December: Transfer of the remains of Lua Getsinger to the new Baha'i Cemetery in Cairo Egypt

 

(Baha'i News, July 1943)

1947: First Spiritual Assembly of Medellin, Colombia

 

(Baha'i News, September 1947)

February 1949: First Baha'i Youth Symposium in Switzerland

 

(Baha'i News, April 1949)

1944: National Haziratu'l-Quds of the Baha'is of Iran, Tihran

(Baha'i News, July 1944)

circa 1948: The "Most Great Prison" in Akka - Baha'u'llah suffered cruelty and deprivation as a prisoner for 24 years

(World Order magazine, December 1948)

circa 1954: National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Iran

Seated, left to right: Ali Akbar Furutan, Adelaide Sharp, Shoallah Alai. Standing, left to right: Jalal Khazeh, General Sohrab, Monir Darakhshan, Zikrullah Khadem, and Kazem Kazemzadeh 

(World Order magazine, 2006, vol. 37, no. 3)

circa 1926: A view of the Garden of Ridvan near Akka

(Star of the West [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 17, no. 8, November 1926)

circa 1926: Pilgrim house at Bahji

(Star of the West [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 17, no. 8, November 1926)

circa 1925: The Girls' School in Ishqabad Russia - One branch of the Baha'i activities

Former students of this school provided active service in 
the Baha'i community and some went to London to continue their studies. 
(Star of the West, [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 16, no. 12, March 1926)

1985: “The time has come for the Baha'i community to become more involved in the life of the society around it…”

The time has come for the Baha'i community to become more involved in the life of the society around it, without in the least supporting any of the world's moribund and divisive concepts, or slackening its direct teaching efforts, but rather, by association, exerting its influence towards unity, demonstrating its ability to settle differences by consultation rather than by confrontation, violence or schism, and declaring its faith in the divine purpose of human existence. 

- The Universal House of Justice  (Ridvan 1985; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)

1979-1985: The “emergence of the Faith from obscurity”

As we enter the final year of the Seven Year Plan, [1979-1986] confidence of victory and a growing sense of the opening of a new stage in the onward march of the Faith must arouse in every Baha'i heart feelings of gratitude and eager expectation. Victory in the Plan is now within sight, and at its completion the summation of its achievements may well astonish us all. But the great, the historic feature of this period is the emergence of the Faith from obscurity, promoted by the steadfast heroism of the renowned, the indefatigable, dearly loved Baha'i community of Baha'u'llah's and the Bab's native land. 

- The Universal House of Justice  (Ridvan 1985; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)

1984-1985: New believers in India

In India alone, over 150,000 new believers have joined the Baha'i community… 

- The Universal House of Justice  (From a message dated 3 January 1985, to the followers of Baha'u'llah in every land; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)

circa 1844: – A new believer in Mashhad, Persia, placed his home at the disposal of Mullá Husayn to teach the Faith – his home became known as Bábíyyih – First Bábí-Baháí Center

circa 1935: views of Bábíyyih

Mírzá Muhammad Báqir-i-Qá’iní, who, for the remaining years of his life, had established his residence in Mashhad, was the next to embrace the Message. The love of the Báb inflamed his soul with such a consuming passion, that no one could resist its force or could belittle its influence. His fearlessness, his unsparing energy, his unswerving loyalty, and the integrity of his life, all combined to make him the terror of his enemies and a source of inspiration to his friends. He placed his home at the disposal of Mullá Husayn, arranged for separate interviews between him and the ‘ulamás of Mashhad, and continued to endeavour, to the utmost of his power, to remove every obstacle that might impede the progress of the Faith. He was untiring in his efforts, undeviating in his purpose, and inexhaustible in his energy. He continued to labour indefatigably for his beloved Cause until the last hour of his life, when he fell a martyr at the fort of Shaykh Tabarsí. In his last days he was bidden by Quddús, after the tragic death of Mullá Husayn, to assume the leadership of the heroic defenders of that fort. He acquitted himself gloriously of his task. His home, situated in Bálá-Khiyabán, in the city of Mashhad, is up to the present time known by the name of Bábíyyih. Whoever enters it can never escape the accusation of being a Bábí. May his soul rest in peace! 

- Nabil  (‘The Dawn-Breakers’; translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)

1846 – While a guest of the Imám-Jum‘ih of Isfahán, the Báb revealed a commentary on a surih of the Qur’an – “verses that equalled in number a third of the Qur’án”

It was at the request of this same prelate [the Imám-Jum‘ih of Isfahán] that the Báb, one night, after supper, revealed His well-known commentary on the súrih of Va’l-‘Asr. Writing with astonishing rapidity, He, in a few hours, had devoted to the exposition of the significance of only the first letter of that súrih—a letter which Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsá’í had stressed, and which Bahá’u’lláh refers to in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas—verses that equalled in number a third of the Qur’án, a feat that called forth such an outburst of reverent astonishment from those who witnessed it that they arose and kissed the hem of His robe. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)

1931: Delegates and friends in attendance at the Twenty-third Annual Convention of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada

(Star of the West [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 22, no. 3, June, 1931)

1931: Chicago Baha'i Temple under construction

(The Star of the West [The Baha'i Magazine], vol. 22, no. 1, April, 1931)

May 12, 1912: Unity Church, Montclair, N.J. - Translation of the prayer ‘Abdu’l-Baha wrote in the church book at the request of the minister

O God! Thou pure Lord! Thanks be unto Thee, that the mountains and deserts were traversed and the great Atlantic was crossed until we reached this continent and in this country, we have mentioned Thy name and fame with our tongue. Even in this church, like unto Elijah, we have proclaimed Thy Kingdom.

O God! Make the people of this church to be attracted to Thy beauty, and in Thy shelter, protect and bless them.

- 'Abdu'l-Baha Abbas

(Star of the West [The Baha’i Magazine], vol. 19, no. 5, August 1928)

1930: Twenty-three hundred Baha’is in attendance at the Naw-Ruz Feast in Tihran, Iran

This illustration has been enlarged from a small kodak picture taken by Dr. Lotfullah Hakim. It shows only a section of the group of twenty-three hundred in attendance at the Baha'i New Year Feast in Tihran, Persia, March 21, 1930. 

Another view of the assembled Baha'is at their New Year’s Feast in Tihran, March 21, 1930. 

(Star of the West [The Baha’i Magazine], vol. 21, no. 3, June 1930)

The Báb was a guest of the Imám-Jum‘ih of Isfahán for 40 days

Isfahan 1839

The first forty days of His [Báb's] the  sojourn in Isfahán were spent as the guest of Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, the Sulṭanu’l-‘Ulamá, the Imám-Jum‘ih, one of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries of the realm, in accordance with the instructions of the governor of the city, Manuchihr Khán, the Mu ‘Tamidu’d-Dawlih, who had received from the Báb a letter requesting him to appoint the place where He should dwell. He was ceremoniously received… 

- Shoghi Effendi  (‘God Passes By’)

September 1846: The Báb left Shiraz and proceeded to Isfahán

Miraculously preserved by an almighty and watchful Providence, the Báb proceeded to Isfahán (September, 1846), accompanied by Siyyid Kázim-i-Zanjání. Another lull ensued, a brief period of comparative tranquillity during which the Divine processes which had been set in motion gathered further momentum, precipitating a series of events leading to the imprisonment of the Báb in the fortresses of Máh-Kú and Chihríq, and culminating in His martyrdom in the barrack-square of Tabríz. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (‘God Passes By’)

1967-YellowKnife LSA: Canada's most northerly Spiritual Assembly

(Canadian Baha'i News, no. 211, August 1967)