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Date 1952-10-08, sorted by firsts, descending

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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]
  • 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]
  • See The Bahá'í Faith 1844-1952 Information Statistical and Comparative (PDF) compiled by Shoghi Effendi.
  • See map of the Ten Year Crusade.
    		•  * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Teaching Plans; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Basic timeline, Expanded; International Archives Building (Haifa); Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)
    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]
  • Centenary celebrations of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh's mission were initiated. [MBW16–18]
  • "Shoghi Effendi began the Holy Year to commemorate the centenary of Bahá'u'lláh's experience in the Siyáh Chál in October 1952 and closed the Holy Year in October 1953 (which corresponds to the centenary of the "Year Nine", the Islamic year 1269)". [Two Episodes from the Life of Bahá'u'lláh in Iran p21 by Moojan Momen]
  • Four international conferences were scheduled in Kampala, Wilmette (dedication of the Temple), Stockholm and New Delhi. [SETPE2p31-43]
  • For a brief description of the Kampala Conference see CG20-21.
    		• Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Centenaries; Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Holy Years; India; Kampala, Uganda; New Delhi, India; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Stockholm, Sweden; Sweden; Uganda; United States (USA); Wilmette, IL
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