Algeria

 Algeria was a Consolidation Territory in Africa allocated to the NSA of Egypt and Sudan during the World Crusade.   In April 1952 responsibility for the Bahá'í Community of Algeria was assigned to the Bahá'ís of Egypt.  In June 1952 a Persian family, Mr K.H. and Mrs Monavar Attar-Hamedani, travelled from Iran to France, and then on to Algeria, where they lived there 16 years amidst hardships and dangers, before being expelled together with other pioneers in 1968.

            Algiers LSA was established by Ridvan 1954.[1] A local haziratu'l-Quds was acquired by Ridvan 1957 (Guardian's message, April 1957, (Messages to the Bahá'í World, 116). At the end of the World Crusade there were two LSAs in Algeria, in Algiers & Oran; and two  isolated centres, at Lamorcier and Tiaret.

 1964-73

             During 1967-69 the Algerian community was part of he NSA of North Africa, which had jurisdiction over Algeria and Tunisia. When the pioneers were expelled in November 1968 the Attar-Hamedani family left behind a villa and office, and moved to Mont Pellier, before eventually settling in Hong Kong.  In 1969 the NSA of North Africa was dissolved when Tunisia was placed under emergency rule.  An NSA was formed in Tunisia in 1972 but Algeria remained unallocated.             Barrett (World Christian Encyclopaedia, p.136) lists 700 Bahá'ís in the mid 1970s, and notes (p.137) expansion had been checked by waves of persecution and the expulsion of 16 Persian "missionaries", and that all activities were banned. The Faith remained banned during the seven year plan.