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1951 24 Dec | 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 | ||
1951 20 Dec | 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; USA | ||
1951 13 Dec | 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-breakers; Riaz Rabbani; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1951 Dec | 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 30 Nov | 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 22 Oct | 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 11 Oct | 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 Oct | 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 Sep | National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States provided guidance on military service. [BN No 247 September 1951 p4] | Armed Forces; Military; Weapons; War; USA | ||
1951 2 or 3 Aug | 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 30 Jul | 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; USA | first black Hand of the Cause | |
1951 Jul | 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 Jun | Bahá'ís in Fárán, Iran, were attacked and several houses burned. [BW18:390] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Faran, Iran; Iran | ||
1951 23 May | 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 25 Apr | The Bahá'í International Fund was established. [MBW13–14] | Funds, International; Funds; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1951 25 Apr | 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, Life of; - Worldwide | ||
1951 Ridván | 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 Ridván | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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; USA; Egypt; India; Iran | ||
1951 Ridván | 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 | 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; British Isles | ||
1951 2 Apr | 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; Báb, Shrine of; Mount Carmel; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1951 21 Mar | 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; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1951 12 Mar | Bahá'ís in Taft, Iran, were attacked and one was killed. [BW18:390] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Taft, Iran; Iran | ||
1951 7 Mar | 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 2 Mar | Shoghi Effendi announced the completion of the restoration of the House of 'Abbúd. [MBW8] | House of Abbud; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Restoration; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Haifa, Israel; Akka, Israel | ||
1951 Mar | 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 25 Feb | 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 25 Jan or 4 Feb | 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 9 Jan | 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, Life of; Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Pilgrim Houses; Pilgrim House, Western; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel | ||
1951 (In the year) | 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 | first Bahá’í in Denmark; first Bahá’í resident in Greenland | |
1951 (In the year) | By this year the first Canadian Inuit had become a Bahá'í. | First Bahá'ís by country or area; First believers by background; Inuit; Canada | first Canadian Inuit Bahá'í | |
1951 (In the year) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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, Life of; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1951 (In the year) | 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) | 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) | Khadaram and Parvin Payman were the first pioneers in Indonesia. [PH62] | Khadaram Payman; Parvin Payman; Indonesia | ||
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