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date	event	tags	firsts
1930 (In the year) 193-	Leonora Holsapple Armstrong visited Gibraltar, the first Bahá'í to do so.	Gibraltar; Leonora Holsapple Armstrong	first Bahá’í to visit Gibraltar
1930 (In the year) 193-	The publication of The Garden of the Heart by Francis Esty published by Roycrafters in New York. [Collins4.135] A Bahá'í named Inez Greeven went on a prilgrimage. When she returned home she asked permission for two of her friends to go to Haifa and have the bounty of meeting the Master. The friends went and returned, apparently unaffected by the experience. In 1920, during her second pilgrimage, she asked 'Abdu'l-Bahá why her friends had not become Bahá'ís. This was His answer: "At the gate of the garden, some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Others step inside, behold its beauty, but do not penetrate far. Still others encircle this garden, inhaling the fragrance of the flowers; and having enjoyed its full beauty, pass out again by the same gate. But there are always some who enter, and becoming intoxicated with the splendour of what they behold, remain for life to tend the garden." [Bahá'í Stories; The Garden of the Heart p14]	Frances Esty; Garden of the Heart (book); Inez Greeven; New York, USA; United States (USA)
1930 (In the year) 193-	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of England changed its name to become the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the British Isles. [Bahaipedia United Kingdom; BCBI423]	British Isles; Ireland; National Spiritual Assembly, formation; United Kingdom
1930 In the early 1930's 193-	In Iran " [i]n the early years of the 1930s Bahá'í women joined the movement of discarding the veil and gradually abandoned the traditional veiling practice. This development opened new fields of service for women and made possible their fuller participation in the social and administrative activities of the communities." [BAHAISM v. The Bahai Community in Iran by V. Rafati]	Human rights; Iran; Veils; Women
1930 (In the decade) 193-	A telling example of how individual members of the Bahá'í community adapted to the circumstances in Yugoslavia over time, particularly during the 1980s, is the Capari family. In the 1930s, Refo (Rifat) Capari returned to his native Albania from the United States to share his newfound faith. Known for his hard work and integrity, he became a respected member of the local community and maintained correspondence with Shoghi Eﬀendi, who provided him with guidance. Before World War II, Refo Capari passed away, leaving behind his wife Fiqrije and three children. By the 1980s, the Austrian Bahá’í community discovered that Refo Capari’s family had settled in Prizren, Kosovo, Fiqrije’s hometown. A Bahá’í couple, travelled to Kosovo and met Fiqrije and two of her children. During their visit, the family shared that they had remained steadfast in their faith, recounting how Shoghi Eﬀendi had supported them during the war and later arranged for an American family to assist them materially. Today, their descendants continue to live in Kosovo, carrying forward the legacy of their ancestors. [State of Governance of Religious Communities in Former Yugoslavia and the Developments of the Bahá’í Community and Jehovah’s Witnesses Status by Aleksandra Zibelnik Badii p73-74]	Albania; Balkans; Kosovo; Yugoslavia


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