Baha'i Historical Facts

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Baha'i Historical Facts

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1949: Third South American Baha'i Congress - Sao Paulo, Brazil

1949: First All-Swiss Baha'i Conference, Bern, Switzerland, Nov. 5-6

The Báb orally assured some of His followers that they would personally meet Baha’u’llah

August 1949: The National Baha'i Center, Frankfurt, Germany

1948: First Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Rome, Italy

1948: First Baha'i European Conference Geneva, Switzerland

1947: Baha'i Children's Class, Shiraz, Iran

First Baha’i in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1923: First election of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of England

1939: First pioneer to Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Siyah-Chal (The Black Pit) of Tehran – a depiction

1939: First pioneer to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

19th Century Persia: System used for surnames

1982: Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Greatest Holy Leaf - The five international conferences of the Seven Year Plan

2001 - The Inauguration of the International Teaching Center Building on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

circa 1950: Baha'i House of Worship in Chicago

Delegates to the 12th International Baha’i Convention in Haifa – April 2018

Some American and Persian Baha'i doctors in Iran circa 1910

1932: The first Local Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is in North America becomes incorporated

The police station in the center of 'Akka, where Baha'u'llah and the exile party briefly paused before proceeding to the prison

Lawh-i-Hawdaj (Tablet of the Howdah) – possibly the first Tablet revealed by Baha’u’llah after He left Baghdad

1931: Tablet of the Báb Found in British Museum

Johanna Sorensen – The first Baha’i in Denmark

Dr. August Forel – how he heard about the Faith

1910: Tarbiyat Boys School's English Class in Tehran, Iran