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1950 (In the year) 195- |
By this year the Bahá'í population of Black Africa was probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190–1] | Statistics; - Africa | |
1950 (In the year) 195- |
The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registered a Bahá'í marriage certificate. [MBW4; UD248]
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Firsts, other; Marriage; Weddings; Recognition (legal); Karkuk, Iraq; Iraq | first Bahá’í marriage recognized in the East (outside Israel) |
1950 (In the decade) 195- |
In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabí to persecute and harass the Bahá'ís. [S1296]
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Hojjatieh Society; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran | |
1950 (In the year) 195- |
The publication of Prescription for Living by Rúhíyyih Rabbani by George Ronald. The first edition was a run of 300 copies, done in a dark blue cloth, serial numbered and autographed by the author. There were subsequent printings in 1950, 1960, 1972, and 1978. [Collins7.2181-2185; CBN No 13 May 1950]
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Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; * Publications | |
1950 (In the year) 195- |
Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in Taft. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Taft, Iran; Iran | |
1950 (In the year) 195- |
The publication of The Covenant, An Analysis by George Townshend. It was published in Manchester by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust 15p. [Collins7.2578] | Covenant; Manchester, England | |
1950 3 Jan 195- |
A woman named Sughrá and her five children were brutally murdered. Members of the Spiritual Assembly of fhte Bahá'ís of Yazd were falsely accused of ordering the crime. The accusations were orchestrated by the judicial authorities from Yazd who were influenced by Mullá Khálisizádih. The trial of these innocent individuals occurred in Tehran with the help of fundamentalist religious authorities. As a result the guilty were never prosecuted and many innocent individuals were imprisoned and executed. [SCF123117] | Mulla Khalisizadih; Abarqu, Yazd, Iran; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1950 15 Jan 195- |
The earliest observation of what has become known as World Religion Day was observed in Portland, Maine in October of 1947
and was entitled "World Peace Through World Religion" after a talk by Firuz Kazemzadeh. [Portland Sunday Telegram And Sunday Press Herald. Portland, Maine. October 19, 1947. p. 42.; BN No 229 March 1956 p1]
".....is a celebration of the need for and the coming of a world religion for mankind, the Bahá'í Faith itself." iiiii |
World Religion Day; Interfaith dialogue; Firsts, other; Firuz Kazemzadeh; United States (USA) | |
1950 3 Feb 195- |
Dr Sulaymán Birgís was martyred in Káshán, Iran. [BW18:390]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Kashan, Iran; Iran | |
1950 26 Mar - 10 Apr 195- |
The British Community needed 22 declarations to complete the goals of their Six Year Plan. The National Spiritual Assembly of Canada sponsored a trip by John Robarts to lend his assistance. During his 13 day stay he visited London, Manchester, Blackpool, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Edinburgh and witnessed 18 declarations. By April 10th the goal had been won. [CBN No 13 May, 1950 p4] | John Robarts; London, England; Manchester, England; Blackpool, England; Blackburn, England; Sheffield, England; Oxford, England; Dublin, Ireland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Glasgow, Scotland; Edinburgh, Scotland | |
1950 Ridván 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the Africa Campaign (1951-1953) in a cable to the British National Convention. [BW12:52; UD245–6]
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- Teaching Plans; Africa Campaign; Claire Gung; Philip Hainsworth; Hasan Sabri; Isobel Sabri; Ted Cardell; - Africa; United Kingdom; United States (USA); Egypt | the first International collaboration plan in Bahá'í history |
1950 25 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi cabled the Bahá'í world with the successes of the Bahá'í work in the past year. [MBW3]
Approximate number of Localities where Bahá'ís resided in the largest Bahá'í communities. |
Statistics | |
1950 25 May 195- |
Dr Khodadad M. Fozdar, a medical officer of the State Railways in India, arrived in Singapore, the first pioneer to the country. [BW13:393]
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Khodadad M. Fozdar; Shirin Fozdar; Singapore | first pioneer to Singapore |
1950 (Early June) 195- |
In 1950 Sutherland Maxwell suffered from a severe illness from which he never recovered. He returned to Montreal in early June, 1951. [From CBN undated Memorial Issue] | Sutherland Maxwell; Haifa, Israel; Montreal, QC; Canada | |
1950 Jul 195- |
The British Six Year Plan was successfully completed. [BW11:25; MBW4] | - Teaching Plans; - Teaching Plans, National; United Kingdom | |
1950 9 Jul 195- |
The Centenary of the Martyrdom of the Báb was commemorated.
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Centenaries; Báb, Martyrdom of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Iran; - Worldwide | |
1950 24–27 Jul 195- |
The third European Teaching Conference was held in Copenhagen. [BW12:49; SBBR14p243]
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Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Copenhagen, Denmark; Denmark; - Europe | |
1950 28 - 30 Jul 195- |
The First European Teaching Summer School was held in Elsinore, Denmark. [SBBR14p243] | Summer schools; Elsinore, Denmark; Denmark | First European teaching summer School |
1950 Sep - Oct 195- |
Four Bahá'ís in Iran were arrested on trumped-up charges. The trial lasted until 1954, when the accused were given prison sentences. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Iran | |
1950 23 Oct 195- |
Nur Ali, a well-known and respected public servant in Suva, became a Bahá'í, the first to accept the Faith in Fiji. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Fiji | first Bahá'í in Fiji |
1950 Nov 195- |
Brian Burland, the first Bermudian to become a Bahá'í, accepted the Faith in Canada. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Canada; Bermuda | first Bermudian Bahá'í |
1950 Nov 195- |
From Switzerland, Shoghi Effendi invited five Bahá'ís—Lotfullah Hakim, Jessie and Ethel Revell, Amelia Collins and Mason Remey—to Haifa. [PP251]
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International Bahá'í Council; Lutfullah Hakim; Jessie Revell; Ethel Revell; Amelia Collins; Charles Mason Remey; Ben Weeden; Gladys Anderson Weeden; Switzerland; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel | |
1950 1 Nov 195- |
Mírzá Badí'u'lláh, the youngest son of Bahá'u'lláh, (b.1867 in Adrianople) described by Shoghi Effendi as the 'chief lieutenant' of the 'archbreaker' of the 'divine Covenant' died. [CB340, 355–6; CF89, BIC162, MSBR63, BBR460, RoB3pg230, CH209, SoB92, CoB340, 355-6, CoF89]
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Mírzá Badiullah; Covenant-breaking; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1950 (Near end of year) 195- |
Shoghi Effendi entered into negotiations with the government of Israel to exchange some farm land near the border with Jordan for the same acreage in the vicinity of the Shrine and the Mansion in Bahjí. The difficult and protracted talks lasted two years and involved Mr Hautz and Leroy Ioas, who in March 1952, had become the General Secretariat of the International Bahá'í Council and so had become the lead on the negotiations. [SETPE1p124-125] | * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel | |
1950 Dec 195- |
Jalál Nakhjavání arrived in Tanganyika, the first Bahá'í pioneer to the country. [BW18:79]
History of the Bahá'í Faith in Tanzania says that Claire Gung was the 1st pioneer of the Bahá'í Faith in the country. Her biography, Claire Gung: Mother of Africa p14 confirms that she disembarked the The Warwick Castle sometime in February, 1951. |
Jalal Nakhjavani; Pioneers; Claire Gung; Tanganyika, Tanzania | first Bahá’í pioneer to Tanganyika |
1950 15 Dec 195- |
The Guardian appealed directly to Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to recognize the interest of the Bahá'í community in the property known as Mazra'ih as a holy place. After a protracted struggle to obtain ownership of the property, then a Moslem religious endowment, he leased the site from the Department of Moslem and Druze affairs in the Ministry of Religions. [DH93, GBF137, PP290, CB331, MBW7, Bahá'í News, no. 244, June 1951, p. 4] | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazraih); David Ben-Gurion; Haifa, Israel; Mazraih, Iran; Akka, Israel; Israel | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Khadaram and Parvin Payman were the first pioneers in Indonesia. [PH62] | Khadaram Payman; Parvin Payman; Indonesia | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Portuguese Bahá'ís Mr António and Mrs Ema Rocha, Mrs Guedes DeMelo Rocha and Mrs D. Laura Rodriquez, the first pioneers to Angola, took up residence in Luanda. | - First travel teachers and pioneers; Luanda, Angola; Angola | first pioneers to Angola |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Muhammad Kayvani was murdered in Najafabad. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Shoghi Effendi received the original manuscript of The Kitáb-i-Íqán, in the handwriting of 'Abdu'l-Bahá with some marginal additions by Bahá'u'lláh, and placed it in the International Bahá'í Archives. | International Bahá'í Archives; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Throughout Iran, the government introduced repressive measures against Bahá'ís. [BW18:390]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Mashhad, Iran; Iran | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Bahá'ís in Árán, Káshán, Iran, were attacked, and one died. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Kashan, Iran; Iran | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Bahá'í women in Egypt were extended the right of membership on local spiritual assemblies. [MBW12]
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Local Spiritual Assembly; Women; Egypt | |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
By this year the first Canadian Inuit had become a Bahá'í. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - First believers by background; Inuit people; Canada | first Canadian Inuit Bahá'í |
1951 (In the year) 195- |
Palle Benemann Bischoff, the first to become a Bahá'í in Denmark, settled in Aasiaat, and became the first Bahá'í to live in Greenland. [MC22]
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Palle Benemann Bischoff; Greenland; John Robarts | first Bahá’í in Denmark; first Bahá’í resident in Greenland |
1951 9 Jan 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the formation of the International Bahá'í Council. [BBD118; BBRSM127; GBF109; MBW7–8; PP252; UD261]
This body functioned until the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963. |
International Bahá'í Council; Universal House of Justice; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Pilgrim Houses; Pilgrim House, Western (Haifa); - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel | |
1951 25 Jan or 4 Feb 195- |
Claire Gung arrived in Tanganyika aboard the Warwick Castle and obtained employment as a matron in a boys' boarding school in Lushoto. She was the second Bahá'í pioneer to the country. [CG160; CBN No 18 Mar 1951 p10]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Claire Gung; Hassan Sabri; Isobel Sabri; Jalal Nakhjavani; Denis Dudley-Smith; Kutendele, LSA, formation; Tanzania; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania | Denis Dudley-Smith Kutendele, the first to accept the Faith in Tanzania |
1951 25 Feb 195- |
In a letter from the Guardian addressed to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles, concerning its Two Year Plan which immediately preceded the Ten Year Crusade, he made a reference to the election of the Universal House of Justice:
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Universal House of Justice, Election of; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 Mar 195- |
The Bahá'ís of El Salvador called on the president of the Republic to dispel any suspicions that the Bahá'í community was linked to communism. | Communism; El Salvador | |
1951 2 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the completion of the restoration of the House of 'Abbúd. [MBW8] | House of Abbud (Akká); * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Restoration; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel | |
1951 7 Mar 195- |
The Prime Minister of Iran, Haj 'Alí Razmara was assassinated during a memorial service in a mosque in Tehran. He had planned to have the Bahá'í prisoners including the members of the Spiritual Assembly of Yazd and others, killed on their way to Tehran. [SCF123note63] | Haj Ali Razmara; - Prime Ministers of Iran; - Prime Ministers; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1951 12 Mar 195- |
Bahá'ís in Taft, Iran, were attacked and one was killed. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Taft, Iran; Iran | |
1951 21 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the completion of the excavation for the eight pillars to support the dome of the Báb's Sepulchre and the decision to place a $130,000 contract for the stonework for both the cylinder and the dome. [CBN No19 April 1951 p4] | Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 2 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the completion of two additional terraces, a scheme initiated a quarter of a century prior, to fulfill the Master's plan to connect, through a series of nine terraces, the Shrine of the Báb with the Templar Colony at the foot of Mount Carmel. [CBN No 19 April 1951 p4] | Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb (Haifa); Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Mount Carmel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The Bahá'ís of the British Isles launched a Two Year Plan (1951-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46]
Some goals were: |
- Teaching Plans; British Two Year Plan; United Kingdom; Ireland; British Isles | |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India, Pakistan and Burma launched the Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46; BBRSM158; DND148–50]
Some goals were: |
- Teaching Plans; - Teaching Plans, National; India; Pakistan; Myanmar | |
1951 Ridván 195- |
Several National Spiritual Assemblies-Britain, Egypt, India, Iran and the United States, joined forces in their first collaborative teaching effort called the Africa Campaign (1951-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46, BBRSM158, MBW135-140]
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- Teaching Plans; Africa Campaign; - Africa; United Kingdom; United States (USA); Egypt; India; Iran | |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central America, Mexico and the Antilles was elected at an international convention in Panama City. Those elected were: Srta. Raquel J. Francois, Mrs. Cora H. Oliver, Srta. Elena Marsella, Srta. Natalia Chavez, James V. Facey
Srta. Zenayda Jurado C, Mrs. Louise Caswell, Dr. David Escalante, Artemus Lamb. [BW12:60; Bahá'í News No 244 June 1951 p12]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Raquel Francois; Cora Oliver; Elena Marsella; Natalia Chavez; James Facey; Zenayda Jurado C; Louise Caswell; David Escalante; Artemus Lamb; Panama | first NSA of Central America |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of South America was elected at an international convention in Lima, Peru. Elected were: Edmund J. Miessler (Sao Paulo), Mrs. Margot Worley (Bahia), Miss Eve Nicklin (Lima), Manuel Vera (Lima), Dr. Alejandro Reid (Punta Arenas), Mrs. Gayle Woolson (Bogota), Esteban Canales L. (Asuncion), Srta. Mercedes Sanchez (Lima), Rangvald Taetz (Montevideo) [BW12:60; Bahá'í News No 244 June 1951 p12]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Lima, Peru; Peru | first NSA of South America |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of India, Pakistan and Burma launched a Nineteen Month Teaching Plan (1951-1953). The Plan included both homefront and international goals. [DND149-154; The Spiritual Conquest of the Planet (Supplement) p2] | - Teaching Plans; India, Pakistan and Burma Nineteen Month Plan | |
1951 Ridván 195- |
The number of sovereign states and dependencies open to the Faith was 106, while some of the Writings had been translated into more than 80 languages. [MBW11] | Statistics; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 25 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi cabled the Bahá'í world with list of the successes of the Bahá'í work in the past year. [MBW11–13] | Statistics; * Translation; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Worldwide | |
1951 25 Apr 195- |
The Bahá'í International Fund was established. [MBW13–14] | Funds, International; Funds; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 23 May 195- |
Jamshed and Parvati Fozdar arrived in Kuching with their son, Vijay, and became the first Bahá'ís to settle in Sarawak. | Jamshed Fozdar; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Kuching, Malaysia; Sarawak, Malaysia; Malaysia | first Bahá’í residents in Sarawak |
1951 Jun 195- |
Bahá'ís in Fárán, Iran, were attacked and several houses burned. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Faran, Iran; Iran | |
1951 Jul 195- |
Mr P. K. Gopalakrishnan Nayer, an Indian, became a Bahá'í in Dar-es-Salaam, the first person to accept the Faith in Tanganyika. [BW12:53] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania; Tanganyika, Tanzania; Tanzania | first Bahá'í in Tanganyika |
1951 30 Jul 195- |
Louis Gregory, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Eliot, Maine, near Green Acre. [CoF163; BW12:666; TMW310, LOF98; SYH236; BN No 247 September 1951 p1]
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Louis G. Gregory; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Hands appointed posthumously by Shoghi Effendi; Firsts, other; Eliot, ME; Maine, USA; United States (USA) | first black Hand of the Cause |
1951 2 or 3 Aug 195- |
The establishment of the Faith in Uganda with the arrival of Mr. Músá Banání, his wife Samí'ih Banání, their daughter, Mrs. Violette and her husband, Mr. Ali Nakhjavani, of Iran, with their baby daughter Bahiyyih, and Mr. Philip Hainsworth who arrived in Kampala from England. [Wiki Bahá'í Uganda]
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Musa Banani; Violette Nakhjavani; `Alí Nakhjavání; Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Philip Hainsworth; Samiih Banani; Kampala, Uganda; Uganda; - Africa | first pioneers to arrive in Uganda |
1951 Sep 195- |
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States provided guidance on military service. [BN No 247 September 1951 p4] | Military (armed forces); Military; Weapons; War; United States (USA) | |
1951 Oct 195- |
Marthe Jeanne Molitor, the first Belgian Bahá'í to settle in another country, left for the Belgian Congo (Zaire) one day after becoming a Bahá'í. | Marthe Jeanne Molitor; Congo, Democratic Republic of | first Belgian Bahá’í to settle in another country |
1951 11 Oct 195- |
Edmund (Ted) Cardell, arrived in Kenya, the first Bahá'í pioneer to the country in the Africa Campaign. [UD488]
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Edmund (Ted) Cardell; Marguerite Preston; Kenya | first pioneer to Kenya in Africa Campaign |
1951 22 Oct 195- |
Ethel Stephens, the first black American pioneer to Africa, arrived in Accra, the first Bahá'í pioneer to Ghana. [UD273] | Ethel Stephens; Ghana | first black American pioneer to Africa; first pioneer to Ghana |
1951 30 Nov 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced plans for the Great Jubilee commemorating the centenary of the birth of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál. [BW12:24–6, 115–16; MBW16–18] | Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Centenaries; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Haifa, Israel | |
1951 Dec 195- |
Brothers-in-law Fred Bigabwa, a Mutoro, and Crispin Kajubi, a Muganda, became Bahá'ís in Uganda, the first to accept the Faith in that country. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Uganda | first Bahá'ís in Uganda |
1951 13 Dec 195- |
Shoghi Effendi's brother Riáz Rabbáni was the last of his siblings to become a Covenant-Breaker. "With feeling profound concern, grief, indignation, am compelled disclose Bahá'í world recent developments Holy Land furnishing further incontestable proof relationship established old and new Covenant-breakers demonstrating increasing boldness, marked, tragic decline in character and spiritual condition grandchildren `Abdu'l-Bahá. Their shameful attitude and conduct receiving approbation their elders. Evidences multiplying attesting Ruhi's increasing rebelliousness, efforts exerted my eldest sister pave way fourth alliance members family Siyyid Ali involving marriage his granddaughter with Ruha's son and personal contact recently established my own treacherous, despicable brother Riaz with Majdi'd-Din, redoubtable enemy Faith, former henchman Muhammad-'Ali, Archbreaker Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant. Convey information all National Assemblies." [MBW16, CoB358, 362, 364] | Covenant-breaking; Riaz Rabbani; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1951 20 Dec 195- |
Hand of the Cause Roy C. Wilhelm, (b.17 September, 1875) passed away in Lovel, Maine. He was buried in the Wilhelm Family Cemetery in Stoneham, Maine. [BW12:662]
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Roy C. Wilhelm; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Hands appointed posthumously by Shoghi Effendi; Martha Root; Lovel, ME; Maine, USA; United States (USA) | |
1951 24 Dec 195- |
Shoghi Effendi appointed 12 Hands of the Cause of God, the first contingent of Hands to be appointed. BBRSM127; BW12:38–40, 374–5; BW13:333–4; MBW20; PG223-224]
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- Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Contingents; Hands of the Cause, First Contingent; Sutherland Maxwell; Charles Mason Remey; Amelia Collins; Varqa, Valiyullah; Varqa; Tarazullah Samandari; `Alí-Akbar Furútan; Horace Holley; Dorothy Baker; Leroy Ioas; George Townshend; Hermann Grossmann; Ugo Giachery; Haifa, Israel | |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
The establishment of the Bahá'í Service for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped as a committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States. Its purpose is to provide the literature of the Faith in mediums which can be used by those individuals whose physical or mental handicaps prevent them from using normal print. [website] | Blindness; Disability; United States (USA) | |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Published on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, Dr Yúnis Afrukhtih's Khatirát-i-Nuh-Saliy-i- Akká, has been described as "pre-eminent among those works dealing with the history of Covenant-breaking".
The English translation was titled, Memories of Nine Years in Akka) by Riaz Masrour and was published by George Ronald in 2004. Over those nine years, 1900 to 1909, Jináb-i-Khán (the title by which Dr. Yúnis Afrukhtih was honoured by 'Abdu'l-Bahá) served the Master in Akká as secretary, translator, envoy and physician. These were difficult years when the Master was imprisoned in the city of Akká, His every move subject to misrepresentation by the Arch-breaker of the Covenant and his associates, and even His life was in danger. At the same time the period saw the victories of the construction of the Shrine of the Báb and the House of Worship in Ishqábád, as well as the rise of the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh in the West. |
Youness Afroukhteh (Yunis Afrukhtih); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Riaz Masrour; Covenant-breaking | |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Aziz Yazdi from Persia joined Ted Cardell in Nairobi. In 1953 they were joined by Ursula Samandari from England. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2] | Pioneering; Aziz Yazdi; Ted Cardell; Ursula Samandari; Nairobi, Kenya; Kenya | |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Mr Narain Das, a textile salesman from India working in Singapore, became a Bahá'í, the first person in the country to accept the Faith. A few months later Mr Teo Geok Leng, a Chinese Singaporean, became a Bahá'í, the first native of Singapore to accept the Faith. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Singapore | first Bahá'í in Singapore; first Chinese Singaporean Bahá'í |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Bahá'ís and their homes were attacked in Najafábád, Iran, and several houses were set on fire. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran | |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Dudley Smith Kutendere from Zomba in the south of Malawi became a Bahá'í in Dar-es-Salaam, the first African to become a Bahá'í in Tanganyika and the first in all of Central and East Africa.
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Dudley Smith Kutendere; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania; Zomba, Malawi; Malawi | first African Bahá’í in Tanganyika, and Central and East Africa |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Walli Khan, a Fiji Indian, became a Bahá'í, the first person in Fiji to accept the Faith. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Fiji | first Bahá'í in Fiji |
1952 (In the year) 195- |
Khodabakhch Attar-Hamedani, his wife, and four sons were the first to pioneer to Algeria. The first Local Assembly was formed in 1954 and several others were formed after. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Algeria and Tunisia and was appointed to the Auxiliary Board until all foreign Bahá'ís were expelled in 1968. [BWIM114] | Persecution, Algeria; Algiers, Algeria; Algeria | first to pioneers to Algeria |
1952 10 Jan 195- |
The passing of Honoré Jaxon (b. 1861 as William Henry Jackson in the village of Wingham, ON). He died one month after his eviction from his basement apartment where he hoarded three tons of archival material which he hoped would become a library for the study of the Métis people of Saskatchewan.
See Speechless 4 December 2009 for a chronological biography as well as a bibliography / webliography of other works on him. See NUVO for a photo of his eviction from the New York Daily News archive and a short biography. See as well BFA1p90-93; OBCC18-21, 25-26. |
- In Memoriam; Honoré Jaxon; Metis people; New York, USA | |
1952 Feb 195- |
Enoch Olinga became a Bahá'í, the third Ugandan and the first of the Iteso tribe to accept the Faith.
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Enoch Olinga; Uganda | first Bahá'í of Iteso tribe |
1952 Feb 195- |
Eric Manton and his son Terry arrived in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), the first Bahá'ís to settle in the country. They settled in the Copperbelt region from where he was able to raise a number of native believers who took the Faith to other parts of Zambia. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2]
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- First travel teachers and pioneers; Eric Manton; Terry Manton; Northern Rhodesia; Zambia | first residents in Northern Rhodesia |
1952 21 Feb 195- |
For their part in the Africa Campaign, Egypt was asked to send pioneers to Libya and to Algeria. The first pioneer to Libya, Dr.
Hussein Gollestaneh, arrived in
Benghazi from Egypt.
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Hussein Gollestaneh; Mr El Alamy; Gorrah family; Benghazi, Libya; Libya | first libyan to declare his Faith |
1952 29 Feb 195- |
Shoghi Effendi appointed the second contingent of Hands of the Cause of God. [BW12:375–6; CT202–3 MBW20–1; PP254; ZK47]
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- Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Contingents; Hands of the Cause, Second Contingent; Fred Schopflocher; Corinne True; Dhikrullah Khadem; Shuaullah Alai; Adelbert Muhlschlegel; Musa Banani; Clara Dunn; Haifa, Israel | |
1952 Mar 195- |
Mariette Bolton of Australia visited New Caledonia, the first Bahá'í to visit the islands. [BW15p437]
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; New Caledonia | first Bahá’í to visit New Caledonia; first Bahá'í in New Caledonia |
1952 Mar 195- |
The Octagonal component of the Shrine of the Báb was completed. [The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1952 Information Statistical & Comparative p6] | Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel | |
1952 4 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi described plans for a marble colonnade to encircle the Shrine of the Báb as an intermediate step to building a superstructure for the Shrine and sent his ideas to Italy for scale drawings and estimate. [SE133–4] | Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Italy | |
1952 8 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the enlargement of the International Bahá'í Council to eight members. [MBW22; PP252–3]
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International Bahá'í Council; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Charles Mason Remey; Amelia Collins; Ugo Giachery; Leroy Ioas; Jessie Revell; Ethel Revell; Lutfullah Hakim; Haifa, Israel | |
1952 25 Mar 195- |
Sutherland Maxwell, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Montreal. He died in the very room that the Master had slept in during His visit to Canada. (b.14 November, 1874) [DH143; MBW132; PP246; CBN undated Memorial Issue]
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Sutherland Maxwell; - Architects; Fortress of Mah-Ku, Iran; Gifts; Relics; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Montreal, QC; Canada | |
1952 26 Mar 195- |
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum was appointed Hand of the Cause of God to replace her father. [GBF111; MBW132–3] | Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Haifa, Israel | |
1952 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central America launched a One Year Plan (1952-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46; The Spiritual Conquest of the Planet (Supplement) p2]
Shoghi Effendi provided the following advice for the aims of the Central American Assembly: |
- Teaching Plans; - Teaching Plans, National; Central America One Year Plan; Central America | |
1952 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly of Uganda was established in Kampala.
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Local Spiritual Assembly; Kampala, Uganda | first Local Spiritual Assembly of Uganda |
1952 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Tanganyika was established in Dar-es-Salaam. Jalal Nakhjavani, Hassan Sabri, Isobel Sabri, Leslie Matola, Khanum Darakshandeh Nakhjavani, Dudley Denis-Smith Kutendele, Eustace Mwalimu, and Naimi Frahang Nayer Gopalkrishnan were among its members; Matola belonged to the Yao tribe, while Mwalimu belonged to another. [History of the Bahá'í Faith in Tanzania] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Tanganyika |
1952 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly of Singapore City was established. [BW12:573; PH58, 67] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Singapore | first Local Spiritual Assembly Singapore City |
1952 Ridván 195- |
The National Convention of the Bahá'ís of Central America was scheduled to be held in a prestigious hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica. When a distinguish believer, Mr Matthew Bullock, was not allowed to register at the hotel because of his race, the National Assembly moved the Convention to another venue and registered guests moved to small pensions rather than staying at the hotel. [SDSC65]
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Conventions, National; NSA; Race; Matthew Bullock; Elsie Austin; San Jose, CA; Costa Rica; Central America | |
1952 27 Apr 195- |
Hyde Dunn was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God posthumously in a cable sent to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand. [BW13:861; SBR169] | Hyde Dunn; - Hands of the Cause; Hands appointed posthumously by Shoghi Effendi | |
1952 May (end) 195- |
Plans drawn up by Mason Remey for a Mashriqu'l-Adhkár on the promontory of Mount Carmel in Haifa were approved but construction is not presently planned.
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Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Design; Charles Mason Remey; Haifa, Israel | |
1952 18 May 195- |
The case brought against Shoghi Effendi by the Covenant-breakers in connection with the demolition of a house adjoining the Shrine and Mansion of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí was removed from the civil courts by the government of Israel. [CB330; GBF138–9; PP233–4, 290]
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Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); House of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahji); Court cases; Covenant-breaking; Haifa, Israel; Bahji, Israel | |
1952 c. Jun 195- |
Dudley Smith Kutendere returned to his home in Nyasaland, becoming the first Bahá'í in the country.
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Dudley Smith Kutendere; Malawi | first Bahá’í resident in Nyasaland; first Bahá’í in Nyasalan |
1952 1 Jun 195- |
In a letter written on behalf of the Guardian by the Assistant Secretary, the National Spiritual Assembly was informed that Ahmad Sohrab had cabled the Israeli Minister of Religion to influence the court case brought by the Covenant-breakers, against the Guardian, and which resulted in complete vindication of the Guardian's control of the Bahá'í Shrines and properties. Sohrab's cable identified the Caravan with the Covenant-breakers and stated that the organization was not under the authority of Shoghi Effendi. In a letter dated May 25, 1941, the Guardian wrote through his Secretary that Sohrab "is no doubt the most subtle, resourceful and indefatigable enemy the Faith has had in America." | Covenant-breaking; New History Society; Ahmad Sohrab; United States (USA) | |
1952 Jun or Jul 195- |
Mr C. C. Cheng, a newspaper reporter; Professor L. S. Tso, a professor of engineering; and Miss Rosie Du (Ruthy Tu) became Bahá'ís in Taiwan, the first people to accept the Faith in the country. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Taiwan; - Asia | first Bahá'ís in Taiwan |
1952 Jun 195- |
Aaron ('Arthur') B. Wellesley Cole, a Sierra Leonean barrister, returned to Sierra Leone from England, the first Bahá'í to enter the country. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Sierra Leone | first Bahá’í resident Sierra Leon |
1952 26 Aug 195- |
The martyrdom of Nuri'd-Dín Fath-'Azam near Tehran. [BW12p690-692] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1952 8 Oct 195- |
Holy Year, "The Great Jubilee", October 1952 to October 1953, was inaugurated. [MBW16-18; BW12:116; DG84; PP409–10; SBR170–1]
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Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Holy Years; Centenaries; Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Kampala, Uganda; Uganda; Wilmette, IL; United States (USA); Stockholm, Sweden; Sweden; New Delhi, India; India | |
1952 8 Oct 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced his decision to launch 'the fate-laden, soul-stirring, decade-long world-embracing Spiritual Crusade' in the coming year. [BW12:253–5; MBW40-41; StS42]
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Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Teaching Plans; * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; - Bahá'í World Centre; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1952 12 Nov 195- |
The government of Israel exchanged 145,000 square metres of land surrounding Bahjí for property at Ein Gev on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee belonging to the descendants of Bahá'u'lláh's brother Mírzá Muhammad-Qulí and given to the Faith for this purpose. [DH118, 208; PP233, SETPE1p134-125, MBW454-46]
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Bahji, Israel; Mírzá Muhammad-Quli; Israel; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre; Sea of Galilee, Israel | |
1952 12 Nov 195- |
Dagmar Dole, pioneer to Alaska and Denmark, passed away in Glion, Switzerland.
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Dagmar Dole; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Glion, Switzerland; Switzerland; Alaska, USA; United States (USA); Denmark | first to give life for Cause in the European project |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Bahá'ís and their houses were attacked in Bushrúyih and Fárán, Iran. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; Bushrúyih, Iran; Faran, Iran; Iran | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Marthe Molitor, a Belgian from Rwanda, began to teach the Bahá'í Faith in Kalina (now Gombe), a district in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). [bahai.org] | Marthe Molitor; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Mr. Mohammad Ali Djalali was among the first Baha'i's to reside in Morocco, for which Shoghi Effendi gave him the title "Knight of Baha'u'llah." [BW34p239]
It is not certain which "Morocco". |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Morocco | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
The arrival of Knights of Bahá'u'lláh Dr. Mihdi Samandari and Mrs. Ursula Samandari (Newman) in Mogadishu, Somalia [BWNS230] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Mogadishu, Somalia; Somalia | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Áqá Rahmán Kulayní-Mamaqání was martyred in Durúd, Iran. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Durúd, Iran; Iran | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Alfred Amisi (Maragoli), Jacob Kisombe (Mtaita), Laurence Ouna (Mluhya), Labi Mathew (Zulu), and Zablon Bob (Luo) were among the first Kenyans to become Bahá'ís. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Kenya | first Kenyans Bahá’ís |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Grant Mensah, a Ghanaian, became a Bahá'í in Ruanda-Urundi, the first person to accept the Faith in that country. | Grant Mensah; Ruanda-Urundi | first Bahá’í in Burundi |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Anjoman-e Hojjatieh ("Society of Allah's Proof Over Creation"), also called the Hojjatieh Society was founded specifically as an anti-Bahá'í organization by a charismatic Shiite Muslim cleric, Shaikh Mahmoud Halabi in the aftermath of the coup d'état of 1953. Between the early 1950s and the early 1970s a great number of the future elite of the Islamic revolution were trained by Hujjatieh. During the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Society was to play an important role in stirring animosity against Bahá'ís. However, in part because of differences in theology—among other things the Hojjatieh believe a truly Islamic state cannot be established until the return of the 12th Imam—the Society fell into disfavour and was banned by the regime in 1984. [Hojjatieh Society, Wiki] | Hojjatieh Society; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran | |
1953 (In the Year) 195- |
The publication of Questions about the Second Coming by George Townshend by the Bahá'í Publishing Committee in Wilmette in response to questions asked of him by the Bahá'ís of Kampala.
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- Christianity; George Townshend; Wilmette, IL; United States (USA); Uganda | |
1953 12–18 Feb 195- |
The first Intercontinental Teaching Conference was convened by the British National Spiritual Assembly in Kampala, Uganda. [BW12:121, MBW135-140; BN No 267 May 1953 p5-7]
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- Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Guardianship; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Teaching; - First conferences; Kampala, Uganda; Uganda; - Africa | first Intercontinental Teaching Conference; first international conference held in Africa |
1953 (Early in the year) 195- |
Shoghi Effendi obtained a wrought-iron gate from England with the intention of installing it at the bottom of the terraces on Mount Carmel. Instead, he had it installed on the path radiating out from the entrance to the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh. The Pyramidal-obelisks and the flower-urns made of lead, border the path on either side. He had originally planned to pave the main path with Carrara marble, the same stone used in the Monument Gardens but abandoned the idea and used pebbles from the Sea of Galilee as he had done on the path between the second and third gates leading to the Shrine of the Báb and at the house of 'Abdu'l-Bahá at 7 Persian Street.
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Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Collins Gate (Bahjí); Amelia Collins; Bahji, Israel | |
1953 19 Mar 195- |
Suhayl Samandarí arrived in Mogadishu and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Italian Somaliland. [BW13:452]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mogadishu, Somalia; Italian Somaliland | first Somali Bahá’í |
1953 25 Mar 195- |
Enayat Sohaili, an Iranian, arrived in Mozambique from India, the first Bahá'í pioneer to the country. [BW13:290]
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Enayat Sohaili; Pioneers; Persecution, Mozambique; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; - First travel teachers and pioneers; Mozambique | first Bahá’í pioneer Mozambique |
1953 Apr 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Finland was established in Helsinki. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Helsinki, Finland | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Finland |
1953 19 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced plans to build a House of Worship in Frankfurt. [BW13:733; LDG191–2]l
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Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Langenhain; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Langenhain, Germany; Frankfurt, Germany; Germany; - Europe | |
1953 20 Apr 195- |
The Second Seven Year Plan ended with 2,425 localities, 611 local spiritual assemblies, 100 countries, islands and dependencies opened to the Faith. There were 12 national assemblies to this date; [UC43]
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- Teaching Plans; Second Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1946-1953); Statistics | |
1953 Ridván 195- |
The Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963) was launched. See MBW151-156, MBW151.
The four primary goals of the plan were outlined as follows: For the objectives of the Crusade see BW12:256–14. Among the goals to be achieved was the construction of the International Bahá'í Archives building. [BBD22; DH168; MBW43] "the first of the major edifices destined to constitute the seat of the World Bahá'í Administrative Centre to be established on Mount Carmel". [PP264]
To those Bahá'ís who arose to open new territories to the Faith during the Ten Year Crusade, the title 'Knight of Bahá'u'lláh' was given. On 27 May 1992, the Roll of Honour containing the names of all the Knights of Bahá'u'lláh was deposited beneath the entrance door to the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh. "…Sometimes people strive all their lives to render outstanding service. Here is the time and opportunity to render historic services; in fact, the most unique in history, aiding in the fulfillment of Daniel's Prophecies of the Last Day, and the 1335 days, when men are to be blessed by the Glory of the Lord, covering the entire globe—which is the real goal of the Ten Year Crusade. [DG54-55] A map of goals for the Ten Year World Crusade by Shoghi Effendi can be found in Bahá'í World, Vol. 12 (April 1950-1954). Electronic versions, in both medium and large format can be found here. The achievements of the Ten Year Crusade were celebrated at the Most Great Jubilee in April and May 1963, which commemorated the Centenary of the Declaration of Baha'u'llah's Mission. Two historic events transpired during that time: the International Convention, convened in Haifa, Israel, to elect the first Universal House of Justice; and the World Congress held in London, England. |
Statistics; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); - Teaching Plans; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Roll of Honour; * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Endowments; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Worldwide | |
1953 Ridván 195- |
Mrs Meherangiz Munsiff, the wife of an Indian diplomat in London, arrived in Madagascar and was acknowledged as the first Bahá'í in the country. [BWNS288]
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Meherangiz Munsiff; Danile Randrianarivo; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Madagascar | first Bahá’í in Madagascar |
1953 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Kenya was established in Nairobi. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Nairobi, Kenya; Kenya | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Kenya |
1953 Ridván 195- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Italy and Switzerland was established. Elected were: Prof. Mario Fiorentini, Mrs. Anna Kunz, Dr. Ugo R. Giachery, Miss Elsa Steinmetz, Mrs. Stella Lonzar, Mrs. Anne Lynch, Friedrich Schar, Mrs. Marion Little, and Prof. Alessandro Bausani.
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Italy; Switzerland | first NSA Italy and Switzerland |
1953 Ridván 195- |
Bahjí was lit for the first time by 99 four-branched wrought iron lamp posts. [GBF32; PP89–90] | Light; Firsts, other; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel | first time Bahjí lit |
1953 29 Apr 195- |
In a moving ceremony, Shoghi Effendi placed a silver box containing a fragment of plaster from the ceiling of the Báb's cell in Máh-Kú under a tile in the golden dome of the Shrine of the Báb. [BW12:239; ZK285] | Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Mah-Ku, Iran; Boxes containing dust, earth or plaster; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Mah-Ku, Iran; Iran | |
1953 29 Apr - 2 May 195- |
The All-American Jubilee celebrations began. [BW12:149] | Centenaries; United States (USA) | |
1953 30 Apr 195- |
Messages from Shoghi Effendi regarding a victory in France:
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Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Hussayn Quli Kiyani; Ugo Giachery; Paris, France; France | |
1953 May 195- |
Mary and Reginald (Rex) Collison, an elderly Canadian-American couple, arrived in Ruanda-Urundi (Burundi) from Uganda and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mary Collison; Rex Collison; Dunduzu Chisza; Alphonse Semanyenzi; Marthe Molitor; Ruanda-Urundi | First Baha'i in Rwanda |
1953 1 May 195- |
The House of Worship in Wilmette was consecrated in a simple ceremony for Bahá'ís only. [BW12:143, 152; ZK93]
A most wonderful and thrilling motion will appear in the world of existence," are 'Abdu'l-Bahá's own words, predicting the release of spiritual forces that must accompany the completion of this most hallowed House of Worship. "From that point of light," He, further glorifying that edifice, has written, "the spirit of teaching … will permeate to all parts of the world." And again: "Out of this Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, without doubt, thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs will be born." "It marks the inception of the Kingdom of God on earth.[CoF69 Message of 21 March 1949] |
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Dedications; Wilmette, IL; United States (USA) | |
1953 2 May 195- |
The House of Worship in Wilmette, the Mother Temple of the West, was dedicated in a public ceremony. [BW12:142, BWNS218]
Specifics
Administration: On the same day as the internment of the sacred remains of the Báb on Mount Carmel, March 21st, 1909, the first American Bahá'í Convention opened in Chicago. The Convention established the 'Bahá'í Temple Unity', incorporated to hold title to the Temple property and to provide for its construction. A constitution was framed and an Executive Board of the Bahá'í Temple Unity elected. This body became the future National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada. [BBD39; BBRSM:106; BW10:179; GPB349; PP397; SBBH1:146; BFA2:XVII, 309; BW13:849; MBW142–3] Foundation Stone: by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, 1 May, 1912 Construction Period:The purchase of the site completed: 1914. Design Chosen: 1920. Superstructure: 1921 – 1 May 1931. External Ornamentation: June 1932 -1943. Interior: 1951 Dedication: 1 May 1953 Architects: Louis Bourgeois with Alfred Shaw (interior cladding) Bourgeois became a Baha'i in New York City in 1907, and two years later responded to the call for designs for the Temple. In 1920, delegates from across the country unanimously selected his innovative design. Bourgeois traveled to Haifa to consult with 'Abdu'l-Bahá. With 'Abdu'l-Bahá's encouragement, Bourgeois refined and scaled down the size of his design. [The House of Worship Architecture] Seating: 1,191 [DP220] Dimensions: 203ft at the base and 49ft high Cost: $2.6 million (another source) $51,500 (land) plus $3,212,517.60 (construction costs 1921-1953) Dependencies: Construction of a home for the aged was began in December, 1957 and inaugurated on 1 February, 1959. It is located about three blocks away. Note: In GPB349 Shoghi Effendi states that "…this enterprise—the crowning achievement of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh in the first Bahá'í century…". References: CEBF236-241,GPB348-353, MDM121-239, The Dawning Place, The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1963 Information Statistical & Comparative p36-37. iiiii |
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Mother Temples; Lawh-i-Ahmad (Tablet of Ahmad (Arabic)); Gifts; Archives; Dedications; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Quick facts; Alfred Shaw; - Architects; Homes for the aged; - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Dependencies of; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); - Basic timeline, Expanded; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Wilmette, IL; United States (USA) | |
1953 3 – 6 May 195- |
The All-America Intercontinental Teaching Conference was held in Chicago. [BW12:133]
.....the lands contributed in Latin America for a similar purpose approximate one-half of a million square meters, ninety thousand of which have been set aside near Santiago, Chile, for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of South America.. |
Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Teaching; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Pioneering; Elsie Austin; Dorothy Baker; Matthew Bullock; Mamie Seto; William Kenneth Christian; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Santiago; Purchases and exchanges; Chicago, IL; United States (USA); Santiago, Chile; Chile; United States (USA) | first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár in South America |
1953 23 May 195- |
The Hand of the Cause of God, Mr. Valiollah Vargha, arrived in Guayaquil accompanied by Miss Eve Nicklin, a pioneer and the spiritual mother of Perú. He also visited Quito and left the country in early July to attend the conference in Stockholm. [Heroes of God pp53-54] | Valiollah Vargha; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Eve Nicklin; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Ecuador; Quito, Ecuador; Ecuador | |
1953 28 May 195- |
In a message addressed on the eve of the 61st anniversary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh, at the opening of the Ten Year Crusade, Shoghi Effendi encouraged 70 pioneers to arise to fill the goals promising that a Roll of Honour with their names would be deposited at the entrance door of the inner Sanctuary of the Tomb of Bahá'u'lláh. [MBW48-49]
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Pioneers; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Roll of Honour; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1953 Jun 195- |
Ghulám 'Alí Kurlawala arrived in Daman and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Daman, India | |
1953 Jun 195- |
Dunduzu Chisiza, a Nyasaland student who had recently become a Bahá'í in Uganda, arrived in Ruanda-Urundi (Burundi) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Ruanda-Urundi | |
1953 6 Jun 195- |
'Izzatu'lláh Zahrá'í (Ezzat Zahrai) arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Zimbabwe; - Africa | |
1953 20 Jun 195- |
Shoghi Effendi designated the Maxwell home in Montreal as a Shrine. [MtC179] | * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Montreal Shrine; Maxwell residence, Montreal, QC; Firsts, other; Montreal, QC; Canada | first Bahá'í Shrine in North America |
1953 Jul 195- |
Rawshan Áftábí and Fírúzih Yigánigi arrived in Goa and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Rawshan Aftabi; Firuzih Yiganigi; Goa, India; India | |
1953 Jul 195- |
Eskil Ljungberg of Sweden, aged 67, arrived in the Faroe Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Faroe Islands, Denmark | |
1953 Jul 195- |
Arthur and Ethel Crane arrived in Key West and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW16:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Key West, FL | |
1953 Jul 195- |
Sa'íd Nahví arrived in Pondicherry and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Pondicherry, India; India | |
1953 Jul 195- |
Jack Huffman and Rose Perkal arrived on the Kodiak Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Kodiak Islands, AK | |
1953 Jul 195- |
Jenabe and Elaine Caldwell arrived in the Aleutian Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | Jenabe Caldwell; Elaine Caldwell; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Aleutian Islands, AK | |
1953 21 – 26 Jul 195- |
The European Intercontinental Teaching Conference was held in Stockholm. [BW12:167; CBN No 46 November, 1953 p4; CBN No 47 December 1953 p6; CBN No 49 February 1954 p3]
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Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Teaching; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Stockholm, Sweden; Sweden; - Europe | |
1953 27 Jul 195- |
Siegfried (Fred) Schopflocher, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Montreal and was buried beside the grave of Sutherland Maxwell in Mount Royal Cemetery. He was born in Landkreis Fürth, Germany 26 September 1877. [BW12:664-666, LOF390, TG119, CBNS 24 July 2014, Bahá'í Chronicles, SCRIBD, Schopflocher, Siegfried (1877–1953) by Will C. van den Hoonaard]
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Siegfried Schopflocher; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Hands of the Cause, Second Contingent; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Montreal, QC; Canada | |
1953 Aug 195- |
The Congo-Belgian colony had its first believers, identified under the term "The Spiritual Sowers". The story begins with Louis Selemani Bin Kimbulu (the first person to accept the Faith) and Sébastien Ilunga Ngoy Buanga Tumba, two Congolese bank officials who were living and working in neighbouring Burundi, where they received, from a servant working for a Western expatriate, a book of Bahá'í prayers which they did not hesitate to liken to a grimoire. Finding it interesting, they sent a letter for further clarification regarding the nature of the prayers to the Bahá'í Publishing House which published the book.
In response to their correspondence, an American Bahá'í living in Usumbura, present-day Bujumbura, went to meet these two men. Some time after they met, and after conducting the independent search for Truth, they decided to become Bahá'ís. This is how they began to spread the "new message" to their other colleagues at the Bank, all Congolese living in eastern DRC. Very quickly, these two young bankers succeeded in finding souls receptive to the message of the Bahá'í teachings. They were 19 in all and constituted the nucleus called "Spiritual Sowers", the founders of the Faith in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [bahai.org; bahai.org; A Remarkable Response Film 4:18] |
Louis Selemani Bin Kimbulu; Sébastien Ilunga Ngoy Buanga Tumba; Bujumbura, Burundi; Congo, Democratic Republic of | first believers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
1953 Aug 195- |
Shawkat Nahví arrived in Pondicherry and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Pondicherry, India; India | |
1953 Aug 195- |
'Abbás Vakíl arrived in Cyprus and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Cyprus | |
1953 2 Aug 195- |
Fred Schechter, an American, arrived in Djibouti and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for French Somaliland. [BW13:451]
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Fred Schechter; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Counsellors; International Teaching Centre, Members of; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); French Somaliland; Djibouti, East Africa | |
1953 Aug 195- |
Shiyam Behari arrived in Pondicherry and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Pondicherry, India; India | |
1953 Aug 195- |
Amír Húshmand Manúchihrí arrived in Liechtenstein and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Liechtenstein; - Europe | |
1953 Aug 195- |
Salísa Kirmání and Shírín Núrání arrived in Karikal and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Karikal, India | |
1953 Jul - Aug 195- |
Amín and Sheila Banání, a Persian-American couple, settled in Athens-Kifissia in August 1953 and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Greece. [BW452]
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Amin Banani; Sheila Banani; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - In Memoriam; Athens, Greece; Greece | |
1953 Aug 195- |
Edythe MacArthur arrived in the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455; BWIM143-145] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Queen Charlotte Island, BC | |
1953 Aug 195- |
Udai Narain Singh arrived in Sikkim and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455; PH63] | Udai Narain Singh; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Sikkim, India; India | |
1953 11 Aug 195- |
Virginia Orbison arrived in the Balearic Islands from a pioneer post in Spain and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Balearic Islands. [BW13:449]
It was neither her first nor her last pioneer experience. Between 1942 and 1946 she pioneered to Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. After World War II she went to Madrid, Spain where she helped raise the first local spiritual assembly and she did the same thing in Barcelona the following year. In July of 1953 she went to the Stockholm Intercontinental Teaching Conference where she offered to pioneer to Mallorca in one of the Balearic Islands, She stayed about one year before returning to Barcelona in August of 1954 where she attended the Iberian Teaching Conference that was attended by 60 people. Late that nine, she and nine others were arrested by the police and interrogated for 18 hours. They had thought that the Bahá'í were Communists. In 1956 she moved to Portugal where she was elected to the first Iberian Regional Spiritual Assembly. After three years she was forced to leave by the authorities because of her Bahá'í activities, holding property and owning a telephone. She was asked to go to Luxembourg where she spent nine years but made little progress in establishing the Faith. She was then asked to got to Malaga, Spain and by 1972 Malaga had a local spiritual assembly so she pioneered to Margella in 1979. The National Spiritual Assembly asked her to write a history of the Faith in Spain which was completed in 1980. As was her wish, she passed to the Abha Kingdom in 1985, still a pioneer. [KoB346-347; Wikipedia] See also Also see Bahá'í World 19 pages 715-721 or 692-697 in the print version and Bahá'í News #586 January 1980 p2-5. |
Virginia Orbison; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Balearic Islands, Spain; Spain; Chile; Argentina; Bolivia; Peru; Ecuador; Brazil; Mallorca, Spain; Spain; Portugal; Luxembourg | |
1953 14 Aug 195- |
In a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany and Austria it was stated that:
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Germany; Austria; Soviet Union; Moldavia | |
1953 (Late August) 195- |
Soon after becoming a Bahá'í in Kampala, Enoch Olinga, together with fellow new believers Max Kanyerezi and Samson Mungono,
responded to the Guardian's call and left his home in Uganda, to fulfill pioneering goals accompanied by Persian pioneers
Ali and Violette Nakhjavání. Leaving in late August 1953 they traveled for almost 3 months, covering a distance
of over 5000 kilometers.
The first leg took them to Samson Mungono's post in Kamina, in the Katanga region of the Belgian Congo. They then took a grueling route to Brazzaville, where Max was dropped off and continued through the thick forests of French Congo and Gabon, hoping to pass through French Cameroons and finally reach the British Cameroons. The car broke down in the tropical forest of Gabon leaving the three remaining friends unable to continue. Enoch volunteered to walk to a town 50 miles ahead through the forbidding jungle to get help. Upon arrival Enoch was so ill he was hospitalized for two days and could not travel for a week. He told of a dream he had in which Shoghi Effendi took him in his arms to comfort and reassure him in his desperation. In mid-October they reached the British Cameroons on the very evening of the conclusion of the Holy Year. Confirmations of the monumental efforts these first African pioneers made soon followed: Enoch, Max and Samson all successfully brought many local people under the banner of the Greatest Name. [A Brief Account of the Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nancy Oloro-Robarts and Selam Ahderom p4] |
Pioneering; Max Kanyerezi; Samson Mungono; `Alí Nakhjavání; Violette Nakhjavani; Congo, Democratic Republic of; Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo; Cameroon | |
1953 26 Aug 195- |
Ella Bailey (b. 16 December, 1864, Houston, Harris County, Texas) passed away in Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya at the age of 88 years. [BW12:687]
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Ella Bailey; Names and titles; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Tripoli, Libya; Libya; Houston, TX; Texas, USA; United States (USA) | |
1953 (In the year) 195- |
Pioneers began to arrive in Libya;
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Mustapha Salem; Asia Zein; Feridon Zein; Rizvaniyyih Iqrari; Mohsen Enayat; Laura Kelsey Allen; Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Mr and Mrs Nemat `Abdu'l-Wahid; Tripoli, Libya; Libya; Benghazi, Libya; Libya | |
1953 28 Aug 195- |
Mildred Clark, a pioneer in Norway, and Loyce Lawrence (née Drugan), a nurse and hospital matron, arrived in the Lofoten Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Sámi people; Lofoten Islands, Norway; Norway | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Brigitte Hasselblatt arrived in Shetland and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Shetland Islands; Scotland; United Kingdom | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Gertrude Eisenberg arrived in Las Palmas and is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Canary Islands. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Canary Islands, Spain | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Evelyn Baxter arrived in the Channel Islands and was named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | Evelyn Baxter; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Channel Islands, UK | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Ada Schott, Elizabeth Hopper, Sara Kenny and Ella Duffield arrived in the Madeira Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Madeira; Portugal; - Europe | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Brigitte Lundblade (nee Hasselblatt), (b. 1923 - d. 17 May 2008) arrived in the Shetland Islands and was later honoured with being named as Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [Bahaipedia] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Shetland Islands; Scotland; United Kingdom | |
1953 Sep 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Enayat Sohaili in Nyasaland (now known as Malawi) [BWNS240] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Malawi; - Africa | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Kathleen Weston arrived in the Magdalen Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Magdalen Islands, QC | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Julius Edwards arrived in the Northern Territories Protectorate (now part of Ghana) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Northern Territories Protectorate; Ghana | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Doris Richardson arrived on Grand Manan Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Grand Manan Island, NB | |
1953 8 Sep 195- |
Jameson and Gale Bond arrived in Arctic Bay in the District of Franklin and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451, SDSC127] | Jameson Bond; Gale Bond; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Arctic Bay, NU; Franklin, QC | |
1953 9 Sep 195- |
Rooho'llah Mavadatt arrived in Algeria as a pioneer. [BN No277 p8] | Algeria | |
1953 9 Sep 195- |
José (d. 1985) and Hilda (née Summers) Xavier Rodrigues, a Portuguese-English couple, arrived in Bissau from Portugal as the first Bahá'í pioneers to Portuguese Guinea (Guinea Bissau) and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Portuguese Guinea; Guinea Bissau | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Cora Oliver arrived in British Honduras (Belize) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | Cora Oliver; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Belize | |
1953 12 Sep 195- |
Nellie French arrived in Monaco and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454]
Then 85, she was the first Bahá'í to arrive in Monaco, but she passed away a few months later. For her act of service in bringing the Faith to the country, she received the accolade Knight of Baha'u'llah from Shoghi Effendi. A celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in the Principality was held on 24-25 April 2004 at the Theatre des Varietes in Monte Carlo, and opened with the reading of a welcoming message from the National Council of the Principality. [Newspaper Archive on BLO] |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Monaco | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Dick Stanton arrived in Keewatin and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Keewatin, NT | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Howard Snider arrived in Key West and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Key West, FL | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Diá'i'lláh Asgharzádih arrived in the Channel Islands and was named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Diaillah Asgharzadih; Channel Islands, UK | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Elsa Grossman arrived in the Frisian Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | Elsa Grossmann; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Frisian Islands | |
1953 Sep 195- |
Hugh McKinley and his mother, Violet, arrived in Cyprus and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Hugh McKinley; Violet McKinley; Ismael Velasco; Olive McKinley; Cyprus; Famagusta, Cyprus | |
1953 18 Sep 195- |
Dwight and Carole Allen arrived in Athens and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Greece. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Athens, Greece; Greece | |
1953 20 Sep 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Mr. Max Kanyerezi in Middle Congo (now called Republic of Congo). At this time the country was, together with the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, and Gabon, part of a much larger French territory called the Federation of French Equatorial Africa which was dissolved in 1958. [BWNS246; A Brief Account of the Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nancy Oloro-Robarts and Selam Ahderom p8]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Congo, Democratic Republic of; - Africa | |
1953 20 Sep 195- |
Countries (in which) Bahá'ís residenow aggregate over (one) hundred fifty. over seventy (have been) added (in the) course (of the) nine years separating (the) first (and) second Jubilees. [From a letter from Shoghi Effendi CBN No 46 November 1953 p1] | Statistics; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1953 23 Sep 195- |
Ted and Joan Anderson arrived in Whitehorse, Canada, and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Yukon. [BW13:457] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Ted Anderson; Joan Anderson; Whitehorse, YT; Canada | |
1953 26 Sep 195- |
The martyrdom of Rahmán Kulayní Mamaqání. He was stabbed by a ruffian in a mob. [BW12p710-711] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution, Mobs; Durúd, Iran; Iran | |
1953 30 Sep 195- |
Manúchihr Hizárí and Hurmuz Zindih arrived in Tangier and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Morocco (International Zone). [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Tangier, Morocco; Morocco | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Mrs (Alexandra) Ola Pawlowska arrived in St Pierre and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Miquelon Island and St Pierre Island. [BW13:454] | Ola Pawlowska; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; St. Pierre and Miquelon | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Helen Robinson arrived on Baranof Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Baranof Island, AK | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Ursula von Brunn arrived in the Frisian Islands and was named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | Ursula von Brunn; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Frisian Islands | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Katharine Meyer arrived on Margarita Island and was named Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Katharine Meyer; Margarita Island, Venezuela | |
1953 Oct 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Edith Danielson in the Cook Islands. [BWNS265] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Cook Islands; Pacific | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Edmund ('Ted') Cardell arrived in Windhoek and wss named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for South West Africa (Namibia). [BW13:456]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Ted Cardell; Alicia Cardell; Martin Aiff; Gerda Aiff; Hilifa Andreas Nekundi; Tate Hilifa; Windhoek, Namibia; Namibia | first German Bahá’ís pioneers to Africa; the first Namibian to become a Bahá'í. |
1953 Oct 195- |
Muhammad Mustafá Sulaymán, an Egyptian, arrived in Spanish Sahara (Western Sahara) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. BW13:456] |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Muhammad Mustafa Sulayman; Spanish Sahara | |
1953 Oct 195- |
The superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb was completed. [BBD210; CB324–5; PP235; ZK85–6]
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Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Marble; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; - Bahá'í World Centre; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Margraf; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel; Chiampo, Italy; Italy | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Claire Gung arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. She spent 18 months in Salisbury (Harare) where she was a member of the first local spiritual assembly. [CG161] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe | first spiritual assembly of Salisbury (Harare) |
1953 Oct 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Emma Rice, followed one week later by Knights Stanley and Florence Bagley and their three teenage children, Susan, Gerrold and Carol in Palermo, Sicily. [BWNS254] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Sicily, Italy; Italy | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Lionel Peraji arrived in Mahé and is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mahé, India | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Charles Dunning arrived in the Orkney Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Orkney Islands, Scotland | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Geraldine Graney arrived in the Hebrides and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Geraldine Graney; Hebrides | |
1953 4 Oct 195- |
Una Townshend arrived at her pioneer post. It was planed that her father, Hand of the Cause George Townshend, accompany her to Malta where the warm climate might improve his health. He was not well enough to go so Una went alone. Unfortunately his illness advanced and Shoghi Effendi asked her to return home to care for him so she left at the end of 1954. Una and her brother Brian helped him to complete Christ and Bahá'u'lláh by writing down his dictations as he was dying from Parkinson's. Shoghi Effendi called the book Hand of the Cause of God George Townshend's 'crowning achievement'. [KoB359-360] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Malta | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Marie Ciocca Holmlund arrived on Sardinia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Sardinia, Italy | |
1953 7 Oct 195- |
William Danjon Dieudonné arrived in Andorra and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW12:449]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Andorra; - Europe | |
1953 7 – 15 Oct 195- |
The Asian Intercontinental Teaching Conference was held in New Delhi. [BW12:178; CBN No 50 Mar 1953 p6-7]
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Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); Teaching; - First conferences; New Delhi, India; India; - Asia; International Archives Building (Haifa) | first international Bahá’í gathering in the East |
1953 Oct 195- |
Earle Render arrived in the Leeward Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Leeward Islands | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Richard and Lois Nolen and children Linda Jean, Cynthia and John arrived in the Azores and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13p449; Bahaipedia] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Richard Nolen; Lois Nolen; Azores | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Salvador and Adela Tormo arrived on the Juan Fernandez Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile; Chile | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Elly Becking arrived in Dutch New Guinea and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Dutch New Guinea; Indonesia | |
1953 11 Oct 195- |
Fawzí Zaynu'l-'Ábidín and his wife, Bahíyyih 'Alí Sa'di'd-Dín, and their sons Kamál and Sharíf arrived in Tetuán from Egypt and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Spanish Morocco. [BW13:456]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Fawzi Zaynul-Abidin; Bahiyyih Ali Sadid-Din; Kamal Zaynul-Abidin; Sharif Zaynul-Abidin; Tétouán, Morocco; Morocco | |
1953 13 Oct 195- |
Esther Evans and Lillian Middlemast arrived in Castries, St Lucia, and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Windward Islands. BW13:457] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Castries, St. Lucia; St. Lucia; Windward Islands | |
1953 13 Oct 195- |
Frederick and Elizabeth Laws arrived in Basutoland (Lesotho) and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449, BWNS262 ]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Basutoland | first Bahá'ís in Basutoland (Lesotho) |
1953 13 Oct 195- |
Una Townshend arrived in Malta and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454, BWNS234] | Una Townshend; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Malta | |
1953 14 Oct 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the settling of 13 further Knights of Bahá'u'lláh, with 178 territories now open to the Faith. [MBW173] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Statistics; Growth; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); - Worldwide | |
1953 14 Oct 195- |
Robert and Elinor Wolff arrived in Dutch Guiana and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Dutch Guiana (Suriname); Suriname | |
1953 14 Oct 195- |
Edith M. Danielsen arrived on Aitutaki Island, 150 miles north of Rarotonga, before leaving for Avarua, Rarotonga, five days later and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Cook Islands. [BW13:450]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Cook Islands | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Enoch Olinga arrived in Victoria (Limbé) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the British Cameroons. [BW13:449]
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Enoch Olinga; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Limbé, Camaroon; British Cameroon; Cameroon; Nigeria | first Cameroonian youth Bahá’í; first Cameroonian adult Bahá’í; first Cameroonian woman Bahá’í |
1953 15 Oct 195- |
Eberhard Friedland arrived in French Guiana from the United States and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; French Guiana | |
1953 16 Oct 195- |
Benjamin Dunham Weeden and his wife Gladys (née Anderson) arrived in Antigua and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Leeward Islands. [BW13:453]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Antigua; Leeward Islands | |
1953 17 Oct 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Bertha Dobbins in Vanuatu. [BWNS256] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Vanuatu; Oceania | |
1953 18 Oct 195- |
George and Marguerite (Peggy) True arrived on Tenerif with their 12-year-old son Barry and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Canary Islands. [BW13:450; BW19p634] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; George True; Peggy True; Margarite True; Barry True; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands; Canary Islands, Spain | |
1953 20 Oct 195- |
Frances Heller arrived in Macau and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the island. [BW13:453; PH73]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Frances Heller; Macau | first Knight of Bahá’u’lláh to settle in Chinese territory |
1953 24 Oct 195- |
Elsie Austin arrived in Tangier from the United States and Muhammad-'Alí Jalálí, an Iranian, also arrived. They were both named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Morocco (International Zone). [BW13:454] | Elsie Austin; Muhammad-`Alí Jalálí; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Tangier, Morocco; Morocco | |
1953 24 Oct 195- |
Luella McKay, John and Erleta Fleming, and Alyce Janssen arrived in Spanish Morocco and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Luella McKay; John Fleming; Erleta Fleming; Alyce Janssen; Morocco | |
1953 29 Oct 195- |
Opal Jensen arrived on Réunion Island from the United States and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Covenant-breaking; Reunion Island; France | |
1953 29 Oct 195- |
Gladys ('Glad') Irene Parke and Gretta Stevens Lamprill arrived in Papeete from Australia and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Society Islands, French Polynesia. [BW13:455]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Papeete, French Polynesia; Society Islands, French Polynesia; French Polynesia | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Zunilda de Palacios arrived on Chiloé Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Zunilda de Palacios; Chiloé Island, Chile; Chile; Latin America | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Geertrui Ankersmidt arrived in the Frisian Islands and was named Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Gertrud Ankersmidt; Frisian Islands; Netherlands | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Frederick and Jean Allen and Irving and Grace Geary arrived on Cape Breton Island and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Frederick Allen; Jean Allen; Irving Geary; Grace Geary; Cape Breton Island, NS | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Shirley Warde arrived in British Honduras (Belize) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Shirley Warde; Belize | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Dr Malcolm King, an American pioneer in Jamaica, arrived in British Guiana (now Guyana) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Malcolm King; British Guiana | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Rolf Haug settled in Crete and iwa named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for that island. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Rolf Haug; Crete, Greece | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Albert Nyarko Buapiah became a Bahá'í in Ghana, the first Ghanaian to become a Bahá'í in the country. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Albert Nyarko Buapiah; Ghana | first Ghanaian Bahá’í |
1953 Oct 195- |
Max Kanyerezi, a Ugandan, was brought to Brazzaville by Violette and 'Alí Nakhjavání and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for French Equatorial Africa. [BW13:451] | Violette Nakhjavani; `Alí Nakhjavání; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Max Kanyerezi; Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo; French Equatorial Africa | |
1953 Oct 195- |
'Amín Battáh, an Egyptian, arrived in Río de Oro (Western Sahara) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Amin Battah; Western Sahara; - Africa | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Bertha Dobbins arrived in Port Vila on the island of Efate from Adelaide, Australia, and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the New Hebrides Islands (Vanuatu). [BW13:454] | Bertha Dobbins; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Port Vila, Vanuatu; Efate, Vanuatu; Vanuatu | |
1953 Oct 195- |
Gail and Gerald Curwin with their daughter Leeanna and Maurice and Ethel Holmes arrived in Nassau and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Bahamas Islands. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Gail Curwin; Ethel Holmes; Gerald Curwin; Maurice Holmes; Nassau, Bahamas; Bahamas | |
1953 Nov 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Dr. K. M. Fozdar on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [PH57; BWNS271] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Tábandih Paymán arrived in San Marino and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh in November. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Tabandih Payman; San Marino, Italy | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Mary Olga Katherine Mills (née Bieymann) arrived in Malta and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Malta | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Samíra Vakíl arrived in Cyprus and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Cyprus | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Dr Mihdí Samandarí arrived in Italian Somaliland and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Somalia | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Dr Khodadad M. Fozdar, an Indian of Parsi background, arrived in the Andaman Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449]
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Khodadad M. Fozdar; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India; India | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Husayn Rawhání Ardikání and his wife, Nusrat, arrived in Tangier with their daughter, Shahlá, and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Morocco (International Zone). [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Husayn Rawhani Ardikani; Nusrat Ardikani; Sahla Ardikani; Tangier, Morocco; Morocco | |
1953 Nov 195- |
'Alí Akbar Rafí'í (Rafsanjání) and his wife, Sháyistih, and their 19-year-old son, 'Abbás, arrived in Tangier and all were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Morocco (International Zone). [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Morocco | |
1953 Nov 195- |
Matthew W. Bullock of Boston, Massachusetts, arrived in the Dutch West Indies (Netherlands Antilles) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Lesser Antilles | |
1953 11 Nov 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the settling of a further contingent of Knights of Bahá'u'lláh in 21 virgin areas, bringing the number of territories open to the Faith to 200. [MBW52–3] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Statistics; Growth; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); - Worldwide | |
1953 11 Nov 195- |
Ottilie Rhein (1903-79), an American of German origin, arrived in Mauritius and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the island. [BW13:454]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Ottilie Rhein; Yim Lim; Mauritius | first Bahá'í in Mauritius |
1953 13 Nov 195- |
Kámil 'Abbás arrived in the Seychelles from Iraq and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455; BWNS272]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Seychelles | |
1953 20 Nov 195- |
The formation of the Israel Branch of the Bahá'ís of Canada. | Canada; Israel; Israel Branch of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada | |
1953 Dec 195- |
Jean and Tove Deleuran arrived in the Balearic Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh in December. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Jean Deleuran; Tove Deleuran; Balearic Islands, Spain | |
1953 Late in the year 195- |
'Abdu'l-Karím Amín Khawja became a Bahá'í in Algeria, the first person to accept the Faith in that country. [BN No277 p8] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Algeria; - Africa | first Bahá'í in Algeria |
1953 Dec 195- |
Kay Khusraw Dahamobedi, Bahíyyih Rawhání and Gulbár Áftábí arrived on Diu Island and are named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Diu Island, India; India | |
1953 Dec 195- |
Adíb Baghdádí arrived in Hadhramaut and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Hadhramaut, Arabian Peninsula; Yemen | |
1953 Nov or Dec 195- |
The arrival, from Egypt, of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Labib Isfahani in Dakar, Senegal. He was followed by his brother Habib Isfahani in April of 1954 who also received the honour. [BW13:452, BWNS283] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Labib Isfahani; Habib Isfahani; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Senegal | |
1953 Dec 195- |
The arrival of Barbara Sims and her family, husband Sandy and daughter Sandra in Tokyo. [Barbara Sims' Contribution to Bahá'í Scholarship in Asia Pacific by Sandra S. Fotos; In memoriam Barbara Sims by Universal House of Justice, Sheridan Sims, and Sandra S. Fotos] | Barbara Sims; Sandra Fotos; Tokyo, Japan; Japan | |
1953 7 Dec 195- |
Jalál Kházeh was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God after the passing of Hand of the Cause of God Siegfried Schopflocher. [GBF111–12; MBW55] | Jalal Khazeh; Siegfried Schopflocher; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments | |
1953 8 Dec 195- |
Loretta and Carl Scherer arrived in Macau from Milwaukee and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for that island. [BW13:453; PH73]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Macau | |
1953 13 Dec 195- |
A separate department for the Bahá'í Faith was established by the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs. [GBF137; PP 291; PP320] | Recognition (legal); Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1953 19 Dec 195- |
Yan Kee Leong became a Bahá'í, the first person to accept the Faith in Malaya. | Yan Kee Leong; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; British Malaya; Malaysia | first Bahá'í in Malaya |
1953 27 Dec 195- |
Gilbert and Daisy Robert, a French couple, become Bahá'ís in Madagascar, the first people to accept the Faith in the country. | Gilbert Robert; Daisy Robert; Madagascar | first Bahá'ís in Madagascar |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The purchase of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Istanbul was concluded. [SS38] | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Istanbul); Purchases and exchanges; Istanbul, Turkey; Turkey | |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The first Tlinget from Alaska to become a Bahá'í, Eugene King, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Alaska, USA; United States (USA) | first Tlinget Bahá'í |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in the Balearic Islands, C. Miguel, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Balearic Islands, Spain | first Bahá’í in Balearic Islands |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
'Aynu'd-Dín and Táhirih 'Alá'í arrived in Southern Rhodesia and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Zimbabwe | |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
Mr and Mrs Sandikonda, Eliam Chisengalumbwe, Mr Musonda, Peter Chitindi and Elias Kanayenda became Bahá'ís, the first African Bahá'ís to enrol in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). BANANI BULLETIN, 1 AUG 1954] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Zambia | first African Bahá’ís in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
José Mingorance Fernandez and his wife, Carmen Tost, a Spanish couple, accepted the Bahá'í Faith; they were the first to enrol in Andorra. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Andorra | first Bahá’ís in Andorra |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
Khodadad Irani settled in Zanzibar, the first Bahá'í to do so. | Khodadad Irani; Zanzibar, Tanzania | first Bahá’í pioneer in Zanzibar |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
Mehraban Isfandiar Sohaili arrived on Mayotte and stayed for two months, the first Bahá'í to visit the island. | Mihriban Suhayli (Mehraban Sohaili); Mayotte | first Bahá’í to visit Mayotte |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The arrival in Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) of Knights of Bahá'u'lláh Izzat'u'llah Zahrai, Douglas Kadenhe, Nura Faridian (now Steiner), Enayat and Iran Sohaili, Shidan Fat'he-Aazam (later member of the Continental Board of Counsellors for Africa) and his wife Florence. [BWNS275] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Zimbabwe; - Africa | |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Violet Noehnke on the Admiralty Islands, now Manus Province in Papua New Guinea. [BWNS307, BWNS312] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea | |
1954 (In the year) 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Ted Cardell in South West Africa (now called Namibia). [BWNS280] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Namibia | |
1954 or 1955 195- |
"The sacred dust of the Báb's infant son, extolled in the Qayyum-i-Asma, was respectfully and ceremoniously transferred on the anniversary of his Father's martyrdom, in the presence of pilgrims and resident believers to the Bahá'í cemetery in Shiraz, the prelude to the translation to the same spot of the remains of the Báb's beloved and long-suffering consort." [CBN No 65 June, 1955 p1]
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Ahmad (son of the Báb); Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1954 Jan 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Dulcie Dive in the Cook Islands. [BWNS265] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Cook Islands | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Jean Sevin arrived in Tuamotu Archipelago and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:457] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Charles M. Ioas arrived in the Balearic Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Balearic Islands, Spain | |
1954 3 Jan 195- |
Howard and Joanne Menking arrived in the Cape Verde Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Cape Verde | |
1954 3 Jan 195- |
The passing of Helen "Nellie" Stevison French (b.19 Oct 1868 Peoria, Illinois) in Monaco. She was buried in the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago.
In September 1953 Nellie French, 85, became the first Bahá'í to arrive in Monaco, but she passed away a few months later. For her act of service in bringing the Faith to the country, she received the accolade Knight of Baha'u'llah from Shoghi Effendi. A celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in the Principality was held on 24-25 April 2004 at the Theatre des Varietes in Monte Carlo, and opened with the reading of a welcoming message from the National Council of the Principality. [Newspaper Archive on BLO] |
Nellie French; - In Memoriam; Peoria, IL; United States (USA); Monaco; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh | |
1954 Jan 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Abdu'l Rahman Zarqani, in the Seychelles. [BWNS272] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Seychelles; - Africa | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Munír Vakíl, a former general in the Iraqi army, settled on one of the Kuria-Muria Islands in the Arabian Sea and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; Oman | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Elizabeth Bevan (later Mrs Golmohammed) arrived in Rhodes and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Rhodes, Greece | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Virginia Breaks arrived on the island of Truk and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Caroline Islands. [BW13:450; MBW57] | Virginia Breaks; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Truk, Caroline Islands; Caroline Islands | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Kenneth and Roberta Christian arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | Kenneth Christian; Roberta Christian; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe | |
1954 Jan 195- |
Andrew and Mina Matthisen arrived in the Bahamas and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahamas; Caribbean | |
1954 10 Jan 195- |
Dorothy Baker, (b. Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA 21 December, 1898) Hand of the Cause of God, was killed in a plane crash in the Mediterranean Sea, near the island of Elba. BOAC Flight 781 departed Rome, Italy on a flight to London, England. While climbing through 27,000 feet, the plane experienced a sudden in-flight break-up and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near the Island of Elba. All 35 passengers and crew on board were killed. Following this accident, the Comet fleet was taken from service and subjected to numerous modifications in areas believed to have been the origin of the yet-unknown failure. The fleet was returned to service in late March 1954. [BW12:670; FAA Website]
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Dorothy Baker; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Hands of the Cause, First Contingent; Mediterranean Sea; Elba, Italy; Italy | |
1954 Jan 195- |
John and Audrey Robarts with their two younger children, Patrick and Tina, left Toronto for their pioneer post in Mafeking (later Mafikeng), Buchuanaland (later Botswana and formerly Bophuthatswana). Older children Aldham and Gerald pioneered to Nigeria and a homefront post respectively. [LOF485-6; CBN No48 January 1954 p11]
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John Robarts; Auxiliary board members; Canada; Botswana; Nigeria; - Africa | |
1954 14 Jan 195- |
Lilian E. Wyss arrived in Apia from Australia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Samoa Islands. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Apia, Samoa; Samoa | |
1954 15 Jan 195- |
'Abdu'l-Rahmán Zarqání, from India, arrived in the Seychelles and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Seychelles; - Africa; India | |
1954 18 Jan 195- |
Mrs Dulcie Burns Dive arrived in the Cook Islands from Australia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450, 925] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Cook Islands | |
1954 25 Jan 195- |
Stanley P. Bolton, Jr. arrived in Nuku'alofa, on Tongatapu Island, from Australia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Tonga Islands. [BW13:456, BWNS286] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Tonga | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Grace Bahovec arrived in the Baranof Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Baranof Island, AK | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Rahmatu'lláh and Írán Muhájir arrived in Mentawai Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454]
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Rahmatullah Muhajir; Iran Muhajir; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Mentawai Islands; Indonesia | |
1954 Feb 195- |
'Azízu'lláh and Shamsí Navídí with their daughters Vida and Giuilda arrived in Monaco and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]
A celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in the Principality was held on 24-25 April 2004 at the Theatre des Varietes in Monte Carlo, and opened with the reading of a welcoming message from the National Council of the Principality. [Newspaper Archive on BLO] |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Monaco | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Joan Powis arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Bernard H. Guhrke arrived on the Kodiak Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Kodiak Islands, AK | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Gail Avery arrived in the Baranof Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Baranof Island, AK | |
1954 Feb 195- |
John and Audrey Robarts their son Patrick and young daughter Tina arrived in Mafikeng and the three adults were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Bechuanaland (Botswana). [BW13:449]
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John Robarts; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mafikeng, Botswana; Botswana; Dr Molema | |
1954 Feb 195- |
David Schreiber, an American, arrived in Antigua and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Leeward Islands. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Antigua; Leeward Islands | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Faríburz Rúzbihyán (Feriborz Roozbehyan) arrived in The Gambia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Gambia, The | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir and Irán Muhájir arrived the Mentawai Islands and received the accolade "Knight of Bahá'u'lláh".[BS13p454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Hands of the Cause; Mentawai Islands; Indonesia | |
1954 10 Feb 195- |
John Leonard arrived in the Falkland Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Falkland Islands | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Elise Schreiber (later Lynelle) arrived on St Thomas Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | Elise Schreiber (later Lynelle); - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Sao Tome and Principe | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Husayn Halabi arrived in Hadhramaut and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Hadhramaut, Arabian Peninsula; Yemen | |
1954 15 Feb 195- |
Charles Duncan (a musician and composer) and Harry Clark, both Americans, arrived in Brunei from Kota Kinabalu (Jesselton) in Sabah, where they had been waiting for several weeks, and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451; PH63]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Charles Duncan; Harry Clark; Brunei; Thailand | |
1954 Feb 195- |
Shirin Fozdar arrived in Saigon, the first pioneer to Vietnam.
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Shirin Fozdar; Pioneer; Saigon, Vietnam; Vietnam | first pioneer to Vietnam. first person to become a beliver in Viet Nam |
1954 21 Feb 195- |
Charles ('Chuck') and Mary Dayton from the United States, settled in Charlotte Amalie, on St Thomas, and wre named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Leeward Islands. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; St. Thomas Island; Leeward Islands | |
1954 spring 195- |
The Síyáh-Chál and some surrounding property was acquired by the Bahá'ís. [BW12:64–5; SE153; SS45]
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Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Purchases and exchanges; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1954 Mar 195- |
Greta Jankko arrived in the Marquesas Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | Greta Jankko; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia | |
1954 1 Mar 195- |
Alvin J. Blum and his wife, Gertrude (née Gewertz), arrived in Honiara and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for the Solomon Islands. They were accompanied by their eight-year-old daughter Keithie. [BW13:456; BWNS291] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Solomon Islands | |
1954 1 Mar 195- |
Shirin Fozdar visited Cambodia to receive the first medallion and Certificate of Satrei Vatthana (Champion of Women) from His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk. She was the first Bahá'í to enter the country.
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Shirin Fozdar; King Norodom Sihanouk; Cambodia | first medallion and Certificate of Satrei Vatthana (Champion of Women) recipient; first Bahá’í in Cambodia |
1954 Mar 195- |
Qudratu'lláh Rawhání and Khudárahm Muzhgání arrived in Mahé and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mahé, India | |
1954 4 Mar 195- |
The arrival of Knights of Bahá'u'lláh Elena (Marsella) and Roy Fernie in Kiribati (Gilbert Islands). They had come from the National Spiritual Assembly of Panama. [BWNS301, BW13:452]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Tabiteuea, Kiribati; Kiribati; Gilbert and Ellice Islands | first Bahá'í on Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) |
1954 Mar 195- |
Olivia Kelsey and Florence Ullrich (later Ullrich-Kelley), a young college graduate, and Olivia Kelsey, an accomplished Bahá'í author and poet, arrived in Monaco from the United States and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454; Collins 4.6 and 7.1359]
A celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in the Principality was held on 24-25 April 2004 at the Theatre des Varietes in Monte Carlo, and opened with the reading of a welcoming message from the National Council of the Principality. [Newspaper Archive on BLO] |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Monaco | |
1954 19 Mar 195- |
Paul Haney was appointed Hand of the Cause of God following the death of Hand of the Cause of God Dorothy Baker. [GBF111; MBW57] | Paul Haney; Dorothy Baker; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments | |
1954 21 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that there were Bahá'ís in 219 countries. [MBW57] | Statistics | |
1954 25 Mar 195- |
The passing of Marion Jack (General Jack) (b. St. John, New Brunswick) at her pioneer post in Sofia, Bulgaria at the age of 87. She had been at her post since 1931. [BWNS385; Never be Afraid to Dare p. 227]
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Marion Jack; Pioneers; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Pioneers; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Sofia, Bulgaria; Bulgaria | |
1954 25 Mar 195- |
Leland Jensen arrived on Réunion Island from the United States and ws named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]
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Leland Jensen; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Covenant-breaking; Reunion Island; France | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Suhráb Paymán, together with his five-year old-daughter Ghitty, arrived in San Marino from Tihrán to join his wife. He was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh in April. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; San Marino, Italy | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Bahá'í women in Iran were accorded full rights to participate in membership of both national and local Bahá'í assemblies. [MBW65]
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National Spiritual Assembly; Local Spiritual Assembly; Women; Equality; Iran | |
1954 Apr 195- |
The arrival of future Knight of Bahá'u'lláh, Mr. Enoch Olinga, in British Cameroon. [BWNS291] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Enoch Olinga; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); British Cameroon; - Africa | |
1954 Apr 195- |
A mere eight months after settling in British Cameroons, Enoch Olinga, along with
the community of new believers at his pioneering post received a cable from Shoghi
Effendi asking for African believers to settle in British Togoland, French Togoland, the Ashanti Protectorate and in the Northern Territories Protectorate before the following Ridván. Although Bahá'ís for only a few months, their response was instantaneous; the largest difficulty arose in limiting themselves to the four names required to fulfill the designated posts. This was determined by a vote. David Tanyi, Edward Tabe, Benedict Eballa, and Martin Manga were duly selected. Samuel Nyki was sent to French Cameroon. Each one established a Local Spiritual Assembly in their assigned posts within two years. [A Brief Account of the Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nancy Oloro-Robarts and Selam Ahderom p4; KoB71] |
Pioneering; David Tanyi; Edward Tabe; Benedict Eballa; Martin Manga; Samuel Njiki (Samuel Nyki); Cameroon; British Togoland (Ghana); French Togoland (Togo); Ashanti Protectorate, Ghana; Northern Territories Protectorate | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Dr John Fozdar arrived in Brunei in April 1954 and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | John Fozdar; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Brunei | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Mrs Mehrangiz Munsiff pioneered to the city of Douala in the French Cameroons (later Cameroon). Both she and Mr Samuel Njiki were honoured as Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for this territory. [Bahá'í Journal UK Vol 20, No 5 Jan/Feb 2004, BW13:451; BWNS249]
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Meherangiz Munsiff; Samuel Njiki (Samuel Nyki); - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; French Cameroon; Cameroon; Douala, Cameroon | Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Cameroons |
1954 Apr 195- |
Edward Tabe, a youth from Cameroon, no older than fourteen, and Albert Buapiah from the Gold Coast arrived in British Togoland and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450; KoB78-79; BWNS249] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Edward Tabe; Albert Buapiah; British Togoland (Ghana); Ghana | |
1954 Apr 195- |
The arrival of Knight Martin Manga to Northern Territories Protectorate (now part of Ghana). [BWNS249; BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Northern Territories Protectorate; Ghana | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Benedict Eballa arrived in Ashanti Protectorate (Now part of Ghana) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449; BWNS249] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Ashanti Protectorate, Ghana; Ghana | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Habíb Isfahání arrived in Dakar and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for French West Africa. [BW13:452] | Habib Isfahani; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Dakar, Senegal; French West Africa | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Kay Zinky arrived in the Magdalen Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Magdalen Islands, QC | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Howard Gilliland arrived in Labrador and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Labrador, NL | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Corporal Richard Walters and his wife, Evelyn, and Richard and Mary L. Suhm arrived in Tangier from the United States and were all named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Morocco (International Zone). BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Tangier, Morocco; Morocco | |
1954 Apr 195- |
John and Marjorie Kellberg of Oak Park, Illinois, arrived in the Dutch West Indies (Netherlands Antilles) and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Lesser Antilles | |
1954 Apr 195- |
Robert B. Powers, Jr., a member of the U.S. armed forces at the Navy Air Station, arrived in Guam and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Mariana Islands. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Guam; Mariana Islands | |
1954 Apr 195- |
The site for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the Holy Land was selected. [DH175; MBW63] | Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Haifa, Israel | first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of the Holy Land |
1954 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that there were Bahá'ís in 228 countries and that Bahá'í literature has been translated into 130 languages. [MBW61–2] | Statistics | |
1954 (Prior to) 195- |
The first native Fijian, the first Pygmy, the first Berber and the first Greenlander to accept the Bahá'í Faith enrolled. [MBWp62] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - First believers by background; Greenland | |
1954 6 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the creation of five Auxiliary Boards with the following number of members: Asia 7; America 9; Europe 9; Africa 9; Australia 2. [BW13p335; CBN No 53 June 1954 p6; MBW44, 58-60]
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Auxiliary board members; Appointed arm; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; Funds, Continental; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1954 6 Apr 195- |
Five Continental Bahá'í Funds were inaugurated by Shoghi Effendi. [MBW59, 63] | Funds; Funds, Continental; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1954 6 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that plans for the International Bahá'í Archives had been completed and that steps had been taken to begin its construction. [PP264BBD22–3; DH169; GBF117–8; MBW64] | * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; - Bahá'í World Centre; Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1954 6 Apr 195- |
In his Ridván Message Shoghi Efffendi announced that:
The site for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the Holy Land has been selected--an area of approximately twenty thousand square meters--situated at the head of the Mountain of God, in close proximity to the Spot hallowed by the footsteps of Bahá'u'lláh, near the time-honoured Cave of Elijah, and associated with the revelation of the Tablet of Carmel, the Charter of the World Spiritual and Administrative Centres of the Faith on that mountain. Funds totalling one hundred thousand dollars have, moreover, been contributed by one of the Hands of the Cause*, residing in the Holy Land, and negotiations have been initiated with the Israeli authorities for the purpose of effecting the immediate purchase of the selected site.(*Hand of the Cause Milly Collins) [MBW63; DoH175] In another message about a year later he provided further details. [MBW78-79] |
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; Funds; Amelia Collins; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); - Bahá'í World Centre; Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel | the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the Holy Land |
1954 9 Apr 195- |
Gayle Woolson and her companion, Rebecca Kaufman, arrived in the Galapagos Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] [Heroes of God p59] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Ecuador | |
1954 11 Apr 195- |
Bula Mott Stewart arrived in Swaziland and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Swaziland | |
1954 12 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi accepted the bid made by the firm of Enrico Pandolfini of Pietrasanta in Tuscany, Italy for the supply of the obelisk will mark the place of the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkar of the Holy Land. After the delivery of the materials circumstances did not allow for the obelisk to be erected. The Universal House of Justice completed the project in August, 1971. | Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Obelisks; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre; Pietrasanta, Italy; Tuscany, Italy; Italy | |
1954 13 Apr 195- |
David Tanyi, a tailor, arrived in French Togoland from British Cameroons and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; French Togoland (Togo); Togo | |
18 Apr 195- |
John and Valera Allen arrived in Swaziland and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Swaziland | |
1954 Ridván 195- |
In his cablegram of October 8, 1952, Shoghi Effendi called upon all 15 "continental" Hands to appoint, during Ridván, 1954, five Auxiliary Boards, one on each continent, composed of nine members each to work as their deputies along with the National Assemblies to assist in the execution of the twelve teaching plans. [BW13p335, MBW44, 63] | Auxiliary board members; Assistants; Appointed arm | |
1954 Ridván 195- |
Adelaide Sharp, who had been in Iran since 1929, was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran, the first woman elected to that body. [BFA2:361] | Adelaide Sharp; NSA; Firsts, other; Women; Iran | first woman elected NSA Iran |
1954 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in the Malay Peninsula was established in Seremban. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Seremban, Malaysia; British Malaya | first Local Spiritual Assembly Malay Peninsula |
1954 Ridván 195- |
The first all African local spiritual assembly in Tanganyika was formed in Bukoba. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Bukoba, Tanzania; Tanganyika, Tanzania | first all African Local Spiritual Assembly in Tanganyika |
1954 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly was formed in British Cameroons. | Local Spiritual Assembly; British Cameroon | first Local Spiritual Assembly British Cameroons |
1954 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly was formed in in Usumbura (later Bujumbura, Burundi) and it composed entirely of Congolese. At that time the area was called Ruanda-Urundi. In 1962 Ruanda-Urundi became the two independent states of Rwanda and Burundi. [A Remarkable Response Film 26:55] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Bujumbura, Burundi; Burundi | first Local Spiritual Assembly Ruanda-Urundi (Burundi) |
1954 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Algeria was formed in Algiers. [BWIM114] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Algiers, Algeria; Algeria | first Local Spiritual Assembly Algeria |
1954 21 Apr 195- |
Bruce Matthews arrived at Goose Bay and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for Labrador. [BW13:453]
See Bruce Matthews, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Goose Bay, Labrador by Lynn Wright and Susan Gammage. |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Goose Bay, NL; Labrador, NL; Canada | |
1954 Ridván 195- |
In Uganda, 2 years previous, there were no Bahá'ís. By this time there were over 700 Bahá'ís, with 24 Spiritual Assemblies. [That Promising Continent 18] | Statistics; Uganda | |
26 Apr 195- |
President of Israel Ben Zvi and his wife visit the Shrines on Mount Carmel, the first official visit paid by a head of a sovereign state to the Shrines of the Báb and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. [GBF139–140; MBW68; PP2923] | Ben Zvi; - Presidents; Prominent visitors; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Firsts, other; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel | first official visit head of a sovereign state to Shrine of the Báb |
1954 May 195- |
Elinore Putney arrived in the Aleutian Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Aleutian Islands, AK; Alaska, USA; United States (USA); Russia | |
1954 2 May 195- |
The arrival of Knights of Bahá'u'lláh Mavis Nymon and Vivian Wesson in French Togoland (now called Togo). [BWNS329 ] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); French Togoland (Togo); Togo | |
1954 2 May 195- |
Cynthia R. Olson of Wilmington, Delaware, settled in Barrigada, the largest village in Guam, and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Mariana Islands. [BW13:454; BWNS303] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Barrigada, Guam; Guam; Mariana Islands; Oceania | |
1954 4 May 195- |
Shoghi Effendi closed the Roll of Honour, except for those pioneers who have already left for their posts and those first arriving in the remaining virgin territories inside and outside the Soviet Republics and satellites. [MBW69] | Roll of Honour; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1954 4 May 195- |
Elizabeth Stamp, an Irish-American widow from New York City, arrived in St Helena and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; St. Helena | |
1954 5 May 195- |
Sabrí and Fahima (Ra'isa) Elias, an Egyptian couple with four children, arrived in Djibouti and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for French Somaliland. [BW13:451] | Sabri Elias; Raissa Elias; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; French Somaliland; Djibouti, East Africa | |
1954 2 May 195- |
Mavis Nymon and Vivian Wesson, both Americans, arrived in French Togoland and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:451] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Togo; - Africa | |
1954 17 May 195- |
The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Elise Lynelle (then Schreiber) in Bata, the capital of Rio Muni, Spanish Guinea, and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for a second time, this time for Spanish Guinea. [BW13:456; BWNS330] | Elise Schreiber (later Lynelle); - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Bata, Equatorial Guinea; Spanish Guinea; Equatorial Guinea | |
1954 26 May 195- |
Shoghi Effendi, Rúhíyyih Khánum and Leroy Ioas returned the visit of President Ben Zvi by visiting him in Jerusalem. [GBF140; PP293–4] | * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Leroy Ioas; Ben Zvi; - Presidents; Jerusalem, Israel; Israel | |
1954 29 May 195- |
Haik (Haig) Kevorkian arrived in the Galápagos Islands and settled on the island of Santa Cruz. He was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. Haig had been present in Guayaquil as an itinerant pioneer-teacher in 1945 when the first local Assembly of that city was formed. He returned in 1954 to fill the virgin goal of the Galapagos. [BW13:452; Heroes of God: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Ecuador, 1940-1979 p24; 61]
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- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Haig Kevorkian; Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Ecuador | |
1954 Jun 195- |
Harold and Florence Fitzner arrived in Portuguese Timor and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | Harold Fitzner; Florence Fitzner; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Portuguese Timor; East Timor | |
1954 Jun 195- |
Louise Groger arrived on Chiloé Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Chiloé Island, Chile | |
1954 Jun 195- |
Shawqí Riyád Rawhání (Shoghi Riaz Rouhani), an Iranian from Egypt, arrived in Las Palmas and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Canary Islands. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Las Palmas, Canary Islands; Canary Islands, Spain | |
1954 9 Jun 195- |
The passing of Alain LeRoy Locke (b. September 13, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) in New York. He was laid to rest in Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC.
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Alain Locke; - In Memoriam; * Philosophy; Race amity; Race unity; Harlem Renaissance; African Americans; Philadelphia, PA; New York, USA | the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, |
1954 18 Jun 195- |
The first islander to become a Bahá'í in the Seychelles, Marshall Delcy, a local school teacher, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Seychelles | first islander Bahá'í in Seychelles |
1954 19 Jun 195- |
The first Canary Islander to become a Bahá'í, Sr. José Jacinto Castillo y Gonzalez, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Canary Islands, Spain | first Canary Islander Bahá’í |
1954 24 Jun 195- |
Shápúr Rawhání and Ardishír Furúdí, Iranian residents of India, arrived in Bhutan by foot and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. They spent about two months in Bhutan. However, circumstances did not permit them to remain longer and they had to return to India. [BW13:449]
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Shapur Rawhani; Ardishir Furudi; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bhutan; India | |
1954 Jul c. 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Brunei, Daphne Hassan, enrolled. | Daphne Hassan; Brunei | first Bahá’í in Brunei |
1954 Jul 195- |
José Marques arrived in Portuguese Timor and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Portuguese Timor; East Timor | |
1954 Jul 195- |
Dr John George Mitchell, an English physician who became a Bahá'í in 1950, arrived in Malta and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Malta | |
1954 Jul 195- |
Reginald Stone and Allan Delph became Bahá'ís in British Guiana, the first two people to accept the Faith in that country. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; British Guiana; Latin America | first Bahá'ís in British Guiana |
1954 5 Jul 195- |
Violet Hoehnke, an Australian, arrived in Papua New Guinea and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Admiralty Islands. [BW13:449] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Papua New Guinea; Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea | |
1954 Second half of the year 195- |
The first Somali to become a Bahá'í in Djibouti, 'Alí 'Abdu'lláh, a 21-year old employee of a commercial firm, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Djibouti, East Africa; Somalia; - Africa | first Somali Bahá’í |
1954 12 Jul 195- |
Dudley Moore Blakely, an artist, sculptor and designer, and his wife, Elsa ('Judy'), British citizens living in Maine, arrived on Tongatapu and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Tonga Islands. [BW13:456] They shared the honour with Dr. Stanley Bolton. [BWNS286] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Tonga | |
1954 12 Jul 195- |
The first South African to become a Bahá'í enrolled in the Faith on this day. [That Promising Continent 20] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Pretoria, South Africa; South Africa | first South African to become a Bahá'í |
1954 15 Jul 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Macau, Harry P. F. Yim (Yim Pui Foung), a 45-year-old small business proprietor born in Canton, China, enrolled. | Harry P. F. Yim (Yim Pui Foung); Macau | first Bahá’í in Macau |
1954 7 Aug 195- |
Marcia Steward de Matamoros Atwater arrived in the Marshall Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] | Marcia Atwater; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Marshall Islands | |
1954 28 Aug 195- |
Mihribán Suhaylí (Mehraban Sohaili) arrived on the Comoro Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | Mihriban Suhayli (Mehraban Sohaili); - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Comoros Islands | |
1954 Sep 195- |
Four people had become Bahá'ís in Zanzibar by this date. | Statistics; Zanzibar, Tanzania | |
1954 6 Sep 195- |
The first people to become Bahá'ís in Bechuanaland (Lesotho), Chadwick and 'Maselai (Mary) Mohapi, enrolled. [BW17:449–52] | Lesotho, South Africa; - Africa; Bechuanaland | first Bahá’ís in Bechuanaland (Lesotho) |
1954 17 - 24 Sep 195- |
The first Italo-Swiss Joint Summer School was held September 17-24 in Bex les Bains in Switzerland, and was attended by as many as 75 friends. Dr. Ugo R. Giachery, Hand of the Cause, discussed the Ten-Year Crusade, and Prof. Zeine-Zeine of Beirut lectured on the Kitáb-i-Iqán. For these sessions all the friends were together. Smaller groups, by language, were formed for study of Bahá’í Administration. [Baha'i News Issue 286, December 1954 p4]
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The first Italo-Swiss Joint Summer School | |
1954 26 Sep 195- |
The first native Greek to become a Bahá'í, Emmanuel Petrakis, enrolled in Crete. | Emmanuel Petrakis; Crete, Greece | first native Greek Bahá’í |
1954 Oct 195- |
A National Haziratu'l-Quds was established in Kabul. [MBW70; 81] | Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Kabul, Afghanistan; Afghanistan | |
1954 1 Oct 195- |
Anthony and Mamie Seto arrived in Hong Kong. | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Anthony Seto; Mamie Seto; Hong Kong; - Asia | |
1954 1 Oct 195- |
The title of the a parcel of land on Mount Carmel was transferred to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada, Israel Branch. The title deed was for Parcel No. 304, Block 10811 Mount Carmel, Haifa. | Purchases and exchanges; Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel; Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1954 1 Oct 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that there were Bahá'ís in 235 countries and territories and over 3000 centres around the world. [MBW69–70] | Statistics; Growth; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); - Worldwide | |
1954 1 - 3 Oct 195- |
Bahá'ís of Germany and the European Hands of the Cause invited the Bahá'ís of Europe to the Haziratu'l-Quds in Frankfurt am Main to develop plans and to coordinate action in the work of the second phase of the Ten-Year Crusade. [BN No 285 Nov 1954 p5] | Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences; Frankfurt, Germany; Germany | first Bahá'í European Conference to meet in Germany |
1954 3 Oct 195- |
Shoghi Effendi designated Martha Root as a Hand of the Cause of God posthumously. She had passed away on September 28, 1939 in Hawaii.
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Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Martha Root | |
1954 Oct 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Nassau, Bahamas, Winfield Small, a young police officer from Barbados, enrolled.
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Nassau, Bahamas; Bahamas; Barbados | first Bahá’í in Nassau, Bahamas |
1954 8 Oct 195- |
Richard Nolen and his family, (Lois A. (Warner), Linda Jean, Cynthia and John), arrived in the Azores, for which he and his wife were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. Two more children,Christopher Lee and Sylvia Louise, were born to the Nolens during their time there. Due to Richards failing health, the family returned to the United States and settled in Tacoma, Washington in August of 1962. After a prolonged illness Richard passed away on the 5th of May 1964. [Bahaipedia] | Richard Nolen; Lois Nolen; Linda Jean Nolen; Cynthia Nolen; John Nolen; Azores; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh | |
1954 22 Oct 195- |
Mr and Mrs Suleimani arrived in Keelung, Taiwan by ship. They spent the rest of their lives there.
Ridvaniyyih Suleimani served on the Auxiliary Board and the National Spiritual Assembly. She passed away in Taiwan on the 18th of March 1981. [BW18p752-754] Suleiman Suleimani served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Taiwan from its formation in 1967 until 1978. He also served as a deputy of the institution of the Huqúqu'lláh for about two decades. [BW20p889-891] The Suleimanis, originally from Iran, had lived for about 28 years in Shanghai where Mrs Ridvaniyyih Suleimani's father, Mr Husayn Ouskouli Uskuli (or Uskui) had long resided and conducted a business. Mr and Mrs Suleimani had left Shanghai permanently in 1950 because of the difficult situations for foreigners in China but Mr Ouskouli decided to stay on and won the admiration of the Guardian. He died in Shanghai at the age of 86. [The Taiwan Bahá'í Chronicle by Barbara R. Sims p3; PH39; Video Early history of the Bahá'í Faith in China 7 min 57 sec] |
- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Riḍvániyyih Ouskouli and Muhammad Suleimani Milani; Husayn Ouskouli Uskuli; Auxiliary board members; Keelung, Taiwan; Taiwan; Shanghai, China; China | |
1954 Nov 195- |
A plot of land of slightly less than half an acre (1,300 metres) owned by Farah Sprague (Farahangiz Khanum), a Covenant-breaker, was purchased (after expropriation by the Finance Minister of the state of Israel on the recommendation of the mayor of Haifa), overcoming the final obstacle to beginning the construction of the International Bahá'í Archives. This concluded a thirty-year struggle in the acquisition of land on the Arc for the Guardian. [LI210-211; DH169; MBW73–4; CBN No 60 January 1955 p1]
The ownership of this plot will now enable us to locate the site, excavate the foundations, and erect the structure, of the International Bahá'í Archives, designed by the Hand of the Cause, Mason Remey, President of the International Bahá'í Council, which will serve as the permanent and befitting repository for the priceless and numerous relics associated with the Twin Founders of the Faith, with the Perfect Exemplar of its teachings and with its heroes, saints and martyrs, and the building of which constitutes one of the foremost objectives of the Ten-Year Plan. [CBN No 60 January 1955 p1] |
Farah Sprague (Farahangiz Khanum); Covenant-breaking; Purchases and exchanges; Mount Carmel; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Haifa, Israel; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1954 1 Nov 195- |
The members of the Algerian National Liberation Front initiated an armed conflict on French targets to start the Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the War of Independence which lasted until 1962 and lead to the independence of Algeria from France. This decolonization war was marked by guerrilla warfare, war crimes, and civil strife. The conflict ended with the signing of the Évian Accords.
The war had a profound human cost, with estimates of Algerian casualties ranging from 400,000 to 1.5 million, alongside 25,600 French soldiers and 6,000 Europeans. The war also saw the perpetration of war crimes, including massacres, rape, torture, the destruction of villages, and the displacement of over 2 million Algerians. Upon independence, approximately 900,000 European-Algerians fled to France. The FLN targeted the Harkis, Algerian Muslims who served with the French army, for retribution, with many facing brutal violence. About 90,000 Harkis found refuge in France, where they and their descendants form a significant community. [Wikipedia] |
Colonialism and imperialism; History (general); Algeria; France | |
1954 20 Nov 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Tonga, Harry Terepo, born in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, enrolled.
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Tonga | first Bahá’í in Tonga |
1954 27 Nov 195- |
Shoghi Effendi described the significance of the world administrative centre of the Faith and the 'structures, which will serve as the administrative seats of such divinely appointed institutions as the Guardianship, the Hands of the Cause, and the Universal House of Justice' to be ranged along a 'far-flung arc'. [MBW74] | Guardianship; - Hands of the Cause; Universal House of Justice, Seat of (Haifa); - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; - Bahá'í World Centre; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Bahá'í World Centre; Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel; Arc (World Centre) | |
1954 27 Nov 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the commencement of "the excavation for the foundations of the International Archives heralding the rise of the first edifice destine to inaugurate the establishment of the seat of the World Baha'i Administrative order in the Holy Land". [MBW75] | - Bahá'í World Centre; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1954 8 Dec 195- |
Bahá'ís in Ádharbáyján were dismissed from their employment in the Ministries of Health and Public Highways. [BW18p390] | Persecution, Adharbayjan; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Azerbaijan | |
1954 16 Dec 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the death of Avarih in Iran, "CONDEMNED POSTERITY MOST SHAMELESS, VICIOUS, RELENTLESS APOSTATE ANNALS FAITH, WHO THROUGH CEASELESS VITRIOLIC ATTACKS RECORDED VOLUMINOUS WRITINGS CLOSE ALLIANCE ITS TRADITIONAL ENEMIES, ASSIDUOUSLY SCHEMED BLACKEN ITS NAME SUBVERT FOUNDATIONS ITS INSTITUTIONS.
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Covenant-breaking; `Abdu'l-Husayn Ávárih; Ameen Fareed (Amin Farid); Nematullah Falah; Iran; Turkey; United States (USA) | |
1955 to 2007 195- |
The fifth Trustee of the Huqúqu'lláh was 'Ali-Muhammad Varqá. He inherited both the Trusteeship and the station of Hand of the Cause of God from his father upon his passing. [Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 25 March, 1985]
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Huqúqu'lláh; Varqá, `Alí-Muhammad; Huququllah, Trustees of; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Varqa; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel | |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in The Gambia, Mr Nichola Banna, a Lebanese merchant, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Gambia, The | first Bahá’í in The Gambia |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
The first indigenous Samoan to become a Bahá'í, Sa'ialala Tamasese, enrolled.
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Bahá'í royalty; Royalty; Samoa | first indigenous Samoan Bahá’í |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
Labíb Isfahání arrived in Abidjan, French West Africa, from Dakar, the first Bahá'í to settle in what is now the Ivory Coast. | Habib Isfahani; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; French West Africa | first Bahá’í to settle in Ivory Coast |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Spanish Sahara, 'Abdu'l-Salam Salím Al-Sbintí, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Spanish Sahara | first Bahá’í in Spanish Sahara |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
Twenty–two African Bahá'ís were expelled from the Belgian Congo. | Persecution, Belgian Congo; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Congo, Democratic Republic of | |
1955 (In the year) 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Grenada, John Protain, a waiter at the Santa Maria Hotel, enrolled. | John Protain; Grenada | first Bahá’í in Grenada |
1955 Jan 195- |
Dorothy Senne became the first Bahá'í in South Africa. [BWNS270] | Dorothy Senne; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); South Africa | First Bahá'í in South Africa. |
1955 c. Jan 195- |
The first Tswana Bahá'í, Stanlake Kukama, enrolled in Mafikeng. | - First believers by background; Mafikeng, Botswana; South Africa | first Tswana Bahá’í |
1955 8 Jan 195- |
Señor Moyses Mosquera Zevallos became the first believer of the Galapagos Islands to accept the Faith. As a result of his becoming a Bahá'í he was persecuted by the priest and both he and his wife lost their jobs as teachers. He was wrongfully accused of immoral acts with some of his students in spite of the fact that the teaching space was such that his wife was constantly with him.
Moses was dismissed from his position because of the influence of the priest but he was asked to return to Naranjal because of the demands of the parents of his students. He remained at this school until his retirement during the late 1970's. [Heroes of God: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Ecuador, 1940-1979 by Helen Basset Hornby p69; 77] |
Santa Cruz, Galápagos; Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Ecuador | the first to accept the Eahá'i Faith in the Galapagos. |
1955 18–22 Jan 195- |
Five Bahá'ís were arrested and beaten in Hisár, Khurásán, Iran; four of these are dragged around the town; Bahá'í houses were attacked, looted and set on fire. [BW18p390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Hisar, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1955 Feb 195- |
The first local person to become a Bahá'í in Mauritius, Mr Yam-Lim, a Chinese Catholic, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Mauritius | first local Bahá’í in Mauritius |
1955 4 Feb 195- |
Bahá'í women in Hisár, Khurásán, Iran, were assaulted. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Hisar, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1955 8–15 Feb 195- |
The first people to become Bahá'ís in Réunion, Paul and Françoise Tayllamin (8 Feb) and Jean Donat and Julien Araye (15 Feb), enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Reunion Island; France | first Bahá’ís in Réunion |
1955 Mar 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in the Solomon Islands, William Gina, a 43-year-old Solomon Islander from the Western Solomon Islands, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Solomon Islands; Oceania | first Bahá’í in Solomon Islands |
1955 Mar 195- |
Kamálí Sarvístání arrived on Socotra Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:456] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Socotra Island | |
1955 4 Mar 195- |
The first Tongan to become a Bahá'í in Tonga, Tevita Ngalo'afe, enrolled. | - First believers by background; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Tonga | first Tongan Bahá’í in Tonga |
1955 14 Mar 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Guam, Charles T. Mackey, a United States civil service employee, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Guam | first Bahá’í in Guam |
1955 20 Mar 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the acquisition of 36,000 square metres of land for the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the Holy Land. [DH175; MBW78–9]
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Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; Purchases and exchanges; Amelia Collins; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; - Bahá'í World Centre; Endowments; Donations; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel; - Worldwide | first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of the Holy Land |
1955 Apr 195- |
The first person to become a Bahá'í in the Bahamas, Molly Newbold, enrolled.
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- First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Bahamas | first Bahá’í in Bahamas |
1955 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that the Bahá'í Faith was represented in 236 countries, in 3,200 locations, by over 40 ethnic groups. Bahá'í literature was translated into 176 languages. [MBW76–8] | Statistics; Growth; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963); - Worldwide | |
1955 18 Apr 195- |
After the violent storm of persecutions against the Bahá'í's in Iran broke loose, the Bahá'í International Community delegates presented their case and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, intervened with the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and brought an immediate end to the physical persecution and lifted the danger of a massacre. [Bahá'í International Community History, 18 April 1955] | United Nations; * Persecution, Iran; Bahá'í International Community; Iran | |
1955 21 April 195- |
In 1843, the Báb's only child, Ahmad, was still-born or died soon after birth. Khadíjih Bagum had a very difficult delivery and almost died as a result. The child was buried under a pine (or cypress) tree in the shrine of Bíbí-Dukhtarán (meaning Matron or Mistress of the Maidens).
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Ahmad (son of the Báb); * Báb, The (chronology); Báb, Family of; Cemeteries and graves; - Births and deaths; Shíráz, Iran; Iran; Cypress trees | |
1955 Ridván 195- |
(The) design (for the) Mother Temple (in the) cradle (of the) Faith (was) unveiled (in the) presence (of) pilgrims (and) resident believers assembled (within the) Haram-i-Aqdas (on the) first day (of) Ridvan. SHOGHI [CBN No65 Jun 1955 p1] | Bahji, Israel | |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first five local assemblies in Bechuanaland (Botswana) were formed in Seqonoka, Maseru, Mafeteng, Maphohloane and Sephapos' Gate. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Seqonoka, Botswana; Maseru, Botswana; Mafeteng, Botswana; Maphohloane and Sephapos Gate, Botswana; Lesotho, South Africa | first five Local Spiritual Assemblies in what is now Lesotho |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first four local spiritual assemblies in The Gambia were formed in Bathurst (Banjul), Serrekunda, Lamin and Brikama. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Banjul (Bathurst), The Gambia; Serrekunda, The Gambia; Lamin and Brikama, The Gambia; Gambia, The | first four Local Spiritual Assemblies in The Gambia |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was formed in Salisbury (Harare). [CG21] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Harare, Zimbabwe; Southern Rhodesia | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly of French Togoland (Togo) formed at Lomé. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Lomé, Togo; French Togoland (Togo); Togo | first Local Spiritual Assembly in French Togoland (Togo) |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual in Mozambique was established in Lourenço Marques. [BW13:290] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Lourenco Marques, Mozambique; Mozambique | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Mozambique |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first native Mozambican Bahá'í, Festas Chambeni, took the Bahá'í Faith to Angola. [BW13:290] | Festas Chambeni; Angola | first native Mozambican Bahá’í |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first Local Spiritual Assembly in Italian Somalia was formed in Mogadishu. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Mogadishu, Somalia; Italian Somaliland | first LSA in Italian Somaliland |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Madagascar was formed in Tananarive (Antananarivo). | Local Spiritual Assembly; Tananarive, Madagascar; Madagascar | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Madagascar |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in the Seychelles was formed in Victoria. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Limbé, Camaroon; Seychelles | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Seychelles |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in the Bahamas was formed in Nassau. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Nassau, Bahamas; Bahamas | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Bahamas |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Vietnam was formed at Saigon-Cholon (Cholon is the Chinese section of Saigon).
[BN No 293 July 1955 p5; Bahá'í Religion in Community Education in Vietnam by Vu Van Chung]
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Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Saigon, Vietnam; Vietnam | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Vietnam |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Zanzibar (Tanzania) was formed. | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Zanzibar, Tanzania | firstLocal Spiritual Assembly in Zanzibar |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Réunion was formed. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Reunion Island; France | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Réunion |
1955 Ridván 195- |
The first Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Monaco was established.
The first person to become a Bahá'í in Monaco was Margaret Lantz, of Luxembourg. Soon after her a Frenchman, Mr. Charbonnet, who owed an antique shop in Monaco, also accepted the Faith. Charlottte Campana was the first person of Monegasque nationality to become a Bahá'í. Bahá'í writings translated into Monegasque were officially presented to Crown Prince Albert in 2001. [Newspaper Archive on BLO] |
Monaco | first LSA in Monaco |
1955 23 Apr 195- |
Ramadán began. Shaykh Muhammad-Taqí known as "Falsafí" made an inflammatory speech against the Bahá'ís from a mosque in Tihrán. [BW18p390]
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Báb, House of (Shiraz); * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution, Mobs; - Persecution; Falsafi; Shaykh Muhammad-Taqi; Tehran, Iran; Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1955 May-Jul 195- |
Persecutions against the Bahá'ís continued throughout Iran. [BW18p391]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1955 2 May 195- |
The police locked the doors of the National Bahá'í Centre in Tihrán thus preventing the holding of the final day of the National Bahá'í Convention. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Conventions, National; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1955 4 May 195- |
Sylvia Ioas was appointed to the International Bahá'í Council as its ninth member. [BW19:612; GBF110; MBW86; PP253; CBN No65 Jun 1955 p1; BN No 292 Jun 1955 p3] | Sylvia Ioas; International Bahá'í Council; Haifa, Israel | |
1955 7 May 195- |
The Iranian army occupied the National Bahá'í Centre in Tihrán. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1955 8 May 195- |
Bahá'ís were beaten at Dámghán, Khurásán, Iran. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Damghan, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1955 8 May 195- |
The Bahá'í centre at Rasht, Iran, was attacked and taken over. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Rasht, Iran; Iran | |
1955 9 May 195- |
Bahá'í houses were attacked and looted at Shíráz, Iran. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1955 9 May 195- |
The Bahá'í centre at Ahváz, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Ahvaz, Iran; Iran | |
1955 16 May 195- |
The Bahá'í centre at Isfahán, Iran, was taken over. [BW18:390] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Isfahan, Iran; Iran | |
1955 17 May 195- |
The Iranian Minister of the Interior announced in parliament that the Government had issued orders for the suppression of the 'Bahá'í sect' and the liquidation of the Bahá'í centres. [BBRSM174; BW18p391] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Iran | |
1955 22 May 195- |
The dome of the National Bahá'í Centre in Tihrán was demolished with the personal participation of several high-ranking army officers. The Haziratu'l-Quds had been taken over on the 7th of May. The publication of the pictures of the demolition encouraged a widespread outburst of persecution of Bahá'ís throughout Iran. [BW18:391; Archives of Bahá'í Persecution in Iran]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1955 23 May 195- |
The Bahá'í International Community submitted its Proposals for Charter Revision to the United Nations for the Conference for Revision of the UN Charter. [BW13:788, 795–802] | Bahá'í International Community; United Nations Charter; United Nations; New York, USA; United States (USA) | |
1955 24 May 195- |
The Bahá'í centre at Karaj, Iran, was taken over. [BW18p391] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Karaj, Iran; Iran | |
1955 27 May 195- |
The Bahá'í centre at Máhfurúzak, Iran, was demolished. [BW18p391] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Mahfurúzak, Iran; Iran | |
1955 30 May 195- |
Bahá'ís were attacked and wounded and their houses attacked at Ábádih, Iran. [BW18p391] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Ábádih, Iran; Iran | |
1955 (Spring) 195- |
Travelling by foot, Udai Narain Singh arrived in Tibet from Gangtok, Sikkim, and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh, his second such distinction.
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Udai Narain Singh; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Tibet; Sikkim, India; India | |
1955 1 Jun 195- |
The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tákur, Mázandarán, Iran, was taken over. [BW18p391] | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Takur); * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Takur, Iran; Mazandaran, Iran; Iran | |
1955 2 Jun 195- |
The first pioneer to settle in Laos, Dr Heshmat Ta'eed, arrived in the country from Thailand. | - First travel teachers and pioneers; Laos | first pioneer to Laos |
1955 3 Jun 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced to all National Assemblies that Majdi'd-Din, "the most redoubtable enemy of 'Abdu'l-Baha" and "the incarnation of Satan", someone who played a leading role in the kindling of the hostility of 'Abdu'l-Hamíd and Jamál Páshá and who was the instigator of Covenant-breaking and archbreaker of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant, died at the age of one hundred after being struck with paralysis affecting his limbs and his tongue. [MBW87-88, 94]
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Covenant-breaking; Majdid-Din; `Abdu'l-Hamid; Jamal Pasha; Mírzá Musa (Aqay-i-Kalim); Samadiyyih Khanum; Fatimih Khanum | |
1955 3 Jun 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that a thousand groups and local Assemblies telegraphed appeals to the Iranian authorities and that all National Assemblies addressed written communication to the Shah, the government, and to parliament pleading for justice and protection. [MBW89] | * Persecution, Iran; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1955 4 Jun 195- |
Frank Wyss of Australia arrived on Cocos and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia | |
1955 28 Jul 195- |
Seven Bahá'ís were stabbed and beaten to death by a mob in Hurmuzak, Iran. [BW18p391; Towards a History of Iran's Baha'i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution, Mobs; - Persecution; Seven martyrs of Hurmuzak; Hurmuzak, Yazd; Iran | |
1955 Aug 195- |
Appeals were made by National Spiritual Assemblies around the world through the Bahá'í International Community to the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld to ask the Iranian government to halt the attacks on the Bahá'ís. [BW13:789–91; BW16:329; MBW88–9; PP304, 311; CBN No 81 October 1956 p1]
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Bahá'í International Community; United Nations; NSA; Human rights; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; New York, USA; United States (USA); Iran | |
1955 5 Aug 195- |
In a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles he requested that Bahá'ís withdraw from Churches, Synagogues, Freemasonry and other secret societies. A number of letters had been written before and were written after on the same subject. [LoGno.1387; LoGno.1388 (1956); LoGno.1389 (1956); LoGno.1390 (1956); LoGno.1391 (1951)]
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Membership of other organizations; Secret Societies; Masons; Masonry | |
1955 15 Aug 195- |
The passing of Mabel Hyde Paine (b. 7 December 1877 in Rockville, CT, d. 15 August 1955 in Urbana, IL). She was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Urbana. [Find a Grave]
Mabel Paine was a Bahá'í teacher and an author. She is remembered as the compiler of The Divine Art of Living that was first published by the Bahá'í Publishing Committee in Chicago in 1944 and saw numerous reprints and revisions until the four revisions. It is still in publication. [Collins4.114 - 4.117] |
- In Memoriam; Mabel Hyde Paine; Rockville, CT; Urbana, IL | |
1955 23 Aug 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced plans to begin construction on the House of Worship in Kampala, Uganda in light of the fact that the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár that had been planned for Tehran during the Ten Year Crusade had to be postponed due to circumstances in Iran. [MBW90; PP312; BW13p713; CG42-43; Bahá'í Faith, The: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Bahá'í Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963 compiled by Hands of the Cause Residing in the Holy Land] | Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Kampala; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Tihran; Kampala, Uganda; Uganda; Iran; Tehran, Iran | |
1955 Sep-Oct 195- |
Bahá'ís in Iran continued to be dismissed from their employment. Bahá'í students were expelled from Shíráz University. [BW18p391] | * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Education; - Persecution; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1955 Sep 195- |
Fowzieh Sobhi arrived in British Somaliland from Egypt, the first Bahá'í to reside in the country. | Fowzieh Sobhi; British Somaliland | first pioneer to British Somaliland |
1955 23 - 25 Sep 195- |
International Teaching Conference was held in Nikko, Japan. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze p87, 97] | Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Teaching; - First conferences; Nikko, Japan; Japan | first conference held in Japan |
1955 Oct 195- |
Daniel Haumont arrived in the Loyalty Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453] | - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - Islands; Loyalty Islands | |
1955 12 Nov 195- |
Hand of the Cause of God Valíyu'lláh Varqá passed away in Stuttgart.
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Varqa, Valiyullah; - In Memoriam; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; Varqa; Stuttgart, Germany; Germany | |
1955 15 Nov 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that for the construction of the International Bahá'í Archives thirty of the fifty-two pillars, each over seven metres high, had been raised and that half of the nine hundred tons of stone ordered from Italy had been safely delivered at the Port of Haifa. He also said that a contract for over $15,000 had been placed with the tile factory in Utrecht for over 7,000 green tiles to cover the 500 square metres of the roof. [MBW95] He announced as well: |
Bahji, Israel; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Haifa; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Tea House of (Bajji); - Bahá'í World Centre; Utrecht, Netherlands; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1955 15 Nov 195- |
'Alí Muhammad Varqá was appointed a Hand of the Cause to succeed his father. [GBF111; MBW91] | Varqá, `Alí-Muhammad; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Varqa | |
1955 Dec 195- |
The first Samoan woman to become a Bahá'í, Mrs Lotoa Refiti (later Lotoa Rock), enrolled. [Koala News, No. 22, February 1956] | Lotoa Refiti; Samoa | first Samoan woman Bahá'í |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
The publication of Religion for Mankind by Horace Holley. There were subsequent publications by George Ronald in 1966, 1969, and 1976 and the Bahá'í Publishing Trust in Wilmette and a printing in 1967. It was transcribed into braille in 1970. [Collins7.1222-7.1226; 8.100]
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Horace Holley; * Publications | |
c. 1956 195- |
Shoghi Effendi acquired the title to the Pilgrim House at Bahjí from the Israeli government as part of the exchange for the Bahá'í properties at Ein Gev. [BBD177; DH226] | Pilgrim house, Bahji; Pilgrim Houses; Purchases and exchanges; Bahji, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel | |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
The first indigenous person to become a Bahá'í in Dutch Guiana (Suriname), George van Axel Dongen, enrolled. | George van Axel Dongen; Dutch Guiana (Suriname); Suriname | first indigenous Bahá’í in Dutch Guiana (Suriname) |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
The first Tlinget to become a Bahá'í in Alaska, Joyce Anderson Combs, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Alaska, USA; United States (USA) | first Tlinget Bahá’í in Alaska |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
The first people to become Bahá'ís in Cape Verde enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Cape Verde | first Bahá’ís in Cape Verde |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
The first indigenous person to become a Bahá'í in New Guinea, Apelis Mazakmat, a school teacher and member of the local government council, enrolled. | Apelis Mazakmat; New Guinea | first indigenous Bahá’í in New Guinea |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
Kedarnath Pradhan, from neighbouring Sikkim, arrived in Nepal, the first pioneer to the country. [Bahá'í Faith In Nepal by Prof. Anil Sarwal] | - First travel teachers and pioneers; Nepal; Sikkim, India; India | first pioneer to Nepal |
1956 (In the year) 195- |
A Roman Catholic priest lodged a complaint against the Bahá'ís of Morocco with the Moroccan Security Service. | Persecution, Morocco; Morocco | |
1956 c. 195- |
The first person in Tibet to become a Bahá'í, Chiten Tashi, a young businessman from the village of Chombethan, enrolled. | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Tibet | first Bahá'í in Tibet |
1956 Jan 195- |
The first Bahá'í pioneer in what is now the Central African Republic, Samson Nkeng, arrived in Bangui from the British Cameroons1 | Samson Nkeng; Pioneer; Central African Republic | first pioneer in Central African Republic |
1956 12 Feb 195- |
The first four people to become Bahá'ís in Hong Kong, Nari Sherwani, Ng Ying Kay, Chan Lie Kun and Chan Lie Fun, enrolled. [PH75] | - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Hong Kong | first four Bahá’ís in Hong Kong |
1956 21 Feb 195- |
The first Bahá'í pioneer, Marguerite Allman, (later Miners), formerly of Hamilton and her pioneer post in the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii), arrived in 1956. She taught the second Icelandic Bahá'í, Erica Petursson. [BN No 487 October 1971 p20; BN303 May 1956 p13] | Pioneer; Reykjavik, Iceland; Iceland; Hamilton, ON | |
1956 25 Feb 195- |
Husayn Uskuli, (b. 1875) long-time pioneer to Shanghai from 'Ishqábád, passed away in Shanghai at the age of 82 and was buried in the Kiangwan Cemetery in Shanghai. [PH29, BW13p871-873]
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Husayn Uskuli; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Ashgabat; Turkmenistan; Shanghai, China; China | |
1956 (Early) 195- |
In early 1956, Rudolfo Duna, his wife Angelica, and eleven year old daughter Julia,
early Mozambican Bahá'ís, undertook the arduous train journey from Johannesburg, South Africa
to Luanda, Angola, covering over 5,000 kilometers. Within a week after their arrival in Luanda, a community large enough to
establish a Local Spiritual Assembly was formed. Another example of a new African believer arising was the case of Dorothy Chivunda in Zambia. When word of the Faith reached the church Dorothy attended, it aroused the curiosity of the congregation. The church decided to send Dorothy to investigate the claims of this new religion. Within three weeks, she declared as a Bahá'í, promptly organizing a teaching trip to her native village in Kawiku, in Chibwakata area of North Western Province. This trip, and the others that followed, involved over 300 kilometers of travel over rough terrain. It set in motion a process that would lead to the enrolment of thousands of her fellow tribesmen, the Lunda of Zambia, into the Faith. [A Brief Account of the Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nancy Oloro-Robarts and Selam Ahderom p3] |
Pioneering; Rudolfo Duna; Angelica Duna; Julia Duna; Dorothy Chivunda; Luanda, Angola; Angola | |
1956 9 Mar 195- |
The passing of Albert R Windust (b. 28 March 1874 in Chicago) in Berrien County, Michigan. He was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago.
Albert, in spite of his meagre education, was a deep student of the Writings, an able speaker, and a profound teacher of the Laws and Ordinances. His classes on the Covenant and Bahá'í Administration were most helpful both to newcomers and Bahá'ís of long association with the Faith. There was a freshness and vigor in his teaching; he radiated a love that reached the hearts. In his every-day life he demonstrated the power of the revealed Word of Bahá'u'lláh.
At the age of fourteen Albert became an apprentice in the printing firm where his father worked. Later he became the first publisher of the Writings of the Faith in America. He printed booklets, early editions of prayers, and the Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh (16 March 1900 BFA2p25). In 1910 he founded and started printing the first Bahá'í monthly publication, Star of the West. He gathered and published the well-known three volumes of Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá from Tablets written to the Bahá'ís in North America. He also assisted Howard MacNutt in publishing Promulgation of Universal Peace. Albert also helped in the compilation and publication of the first five volumes of The Bahá'í World for the years 1926 to 1934. When his father died on May 21st, 1913 Albert wrote to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and asked Him to pray for him. 'Abdu'l-Bahá responded by sending a Tablet with a prayer. It was published in SoW Vol 11 Issue 19 p219 and has been printed in Spiritual Strength for Men p82-83 published by Kalimat Press and in Family Worship p66 compiled by Wendi Momen and published by George Ronald. |
- In Memoriam; Albert Windust; Chicago, IL | |
1956 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that the remaining 22 pillars of the International Bahá'í Archives had been erected and that the last half of the 900 tons of marble from Italy had been delivered. Forty-four tons of glazed green tiles from Utrecht had been placed in position. [MBW108] He also announced that: |
Haram-i-Aqdas; Covenant-breaking; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Tea House of (Bajji); - Bahá'í World Centre; Bahji, Israel; International Archives Building (Haifa) | |
1956 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced that the Bahá'í Faith was established in 247 countries, in 3,700 localities and that there were more than 900 local spiritual assemblies, of which 168 were incorporated. Bahá'í literature had been translated into 190 languages. [MBW92–3] | Statistics | |
1956 Apr 195- |
Shoghi Effendi announced the extension to Egyptian Bahá'í women of the right to be elected to the National Spiritual Assembly and to participate in the national convention. [MBW96–7] | National Spiritual Assembly, women; Women; Equality; - Middle East; Egypt | |
1956 Apr 195- |
The publication of Ade-rih-wa-nie-ton On-kwe-on-we Neh-ha: A Message to the Iroquois Indians in the Canadian Bahá'í News. This pamphlet was translated to the Mohawk language by Mr. Charles Cooke of Ottawa and there is reason to believe the translation was commissioned by the Québec Regional Teaching Committee. [Letter from the National Spiritual Assembly to Dr. C Buck 6 January 2021; CBN No69 Oct 1955 p4; CBN 45 April 1956 p.11]
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- Indigenous Messengers of God; Iroquois; Native Americans; Canada | |
1956 7 Apr 195- |
The first indigenous person to become a Bahá'í in Micronesia, 22-year-old Joe Erie Ilengelkei from Palau, Caroline Islands, enrolled. | Joe Erie Ilengelkei; Palau; Caroline Islands | first indigenous Bahá’í in Micronesia |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of South and West Africa was formed with its seat in Johannesburg, South Africa. The National Convention was held at the Sears farm. Those elected to serve were: John Allen, Festus Chembeni, Walter Dlamini, William Masehla, Robert Miller, Andrew Mofokeng, John Robarts, William Sears and Max Seepe. In January 1957 Walter Dlamini resigned and Marguerite Sears was elected to replace him. [BW13:284; MBW71-72; BN no608 November 1981 p11]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Johannesburg, South Africa; South Africa | first Regional Spiritual Assembly of South and West Africa |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa was formed with its seat in Kampala, Uganda. [BW13:284; MBW71-72]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Kampala, Uganda; Uganda | first Regional Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa was formed with its seat in Tunis, Tunisia. [BW13:284]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Tunis, Tunisia; Tunisia | first Regional Spiritual Assembly of North West Africa |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly was formed in Morocco (International Zone). | Local Spiritual Assembly; Morocco | first Local Spiritual Assembly Morocco |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa was formed by expanding the jurisdiction of the National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and Sudan. [BW13:284]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Egypt; Libya; Sudan; Eritrea; French Somaliland; Djibouti, East Africa; Italian Somaliland; Ethiopia; Socotra Island; British Somaliland; Abyssinia; Eritrea | first Regional Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa |
1956 Ridván 195- |
In his message to the four African Conventions for the National Spiritual Assemblies of Central and East Africa, North East Africa, North-West Africa, and South and West Africa, the Guardian announced that there were "over three thousand avowed supporters, five-sixths of whom belong to the Negro race, scattered throughout more than fifty territories and islands, and residing in over four hundred localities. Representatives of no less than one hundred and forty of its tribes have, moreover, enlisted under the banner of the Faith. Over a hundred and twenty Bahá'í Local Assemblies are already functioning throughout its territories. Into more than fifty of its indigenous languages Bahá'í literature has been and is being translated. The process of incorporating the newly formed Local Assemblies has furthermore been inaugurated. A National Administrative Headquarters has been established in each one of its four pivotal centres, while three Temple sites situated within its confines have been recently purchased, on one of which the Mother Temple of Africa is soon to be erected." [That Promising Continent 24-26] | Statistics; - Africa | |
1956 Ridván 195- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Bermuda was formed. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Bermuda | firstLocal Spiritual Assembly Bermuda |
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