1. 2025-12-31. Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors. Universal House of Justice. Regarding the progress of the Nine Year Plan of the worldwide Bahá’í community (2022–2031). UHJ-letters.
2. 2025-04-21. Evolving Administrative Order, An. Bahá'í World. The Bahá’í administrative order, evolving globally, fosters unity, decentralization, and social transformation, offering a cooperative model of governance rooted in Bahá’u’lláh’s vision of humanity’s collective maturity. Articles.
3. 2023-11-28. Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age. Universal House of Justice. Overview of the Faith's developments and activities during the previous century, including the Guardianship, global expansion, community building and development, participation in societal discourse, and construction of the Bahá'í World Centre. UHJ-letters.
4. 2021-12-30. Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors on the Nine Year Plan. Universal House of Justice. Features of the new 9-Year Plan, "the first major undertaking in a sacred twenty-five-year venture, generational in its scope and significance," to be implemented Ridvan 2022. UHJ-letters.
5. 2020-09. Spatial Strategies for Racial Unity. June Manning Thomas. On the nature and approaches of Bahá’í educational programs and community building efforts which seek, in the context of neighborhoods and villages, to raise capacity for service to humanity. Articles.
6. 2017. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies. June Manning Thomas. Division by place affects the possibilities for racial unity, especially in fragmented U.S. metropolitan areas. The "institute process” as a strategy could overcome challenges that place-based action poses for racial unity. Articles.
7. 2016. Bahá'í Glossary, A. Neil McMillan, Brian Didier, Susan Gammage, ed. . A glossary of Bahá'í principles and concepts, as derived from hundreds of messages of the Universal House of Justice. Glossaries.
8. 2013. Materials Studied at the 114 Global Youth Conferences in 2013. Bahá'í World Centre. Compilation presenting materials studied during the global Bahá’í youth conferences in 2013, organized under the auspices of the Universal House of Justice, exploring youth identity, community-building, service, and civilization advancement. Study.
9. 2009-05-15. Role of the Local Assembly in Cluster Growth. Universal House of Justice, International Teaching Centre, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Practical guidelines for LSAs to organize and teach more effectively. Compilations.
10. 2007-09-30. Message on clusters, institutes, and growth. International Teaching Centre. Message from the Counsellors on growth and enrollments. UHJ-letters.
11. 2007-04-19. Ridvan Message to the US National Spiritual Assembly. Universal House of Justice. Brief discussion of clusters and the low rate of enrollments in the United States. UHJ-letters.
12. 2006. Learning to Respond to Emerging New Realities: Messages from the Universal House of Justice. Universal House of Justice. Two letters to the US NSA dealing with expansion and administration, and a document prepared by the International Teaching Centre, "Impact of Growth on Administration Processes." UHJ-documents.
13. 2004. Core Activities of the Five Year Plan and the Movement of Clusters. Farzam Arbab. Talks.

1. 2001-01-12 —
   The Administrative Order was further developed by the Universal House of Justice in its message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counselors of 9 January 2001 in which the concept of the "cluster" was first introduced. The cluster, a subdivision of the region, is to be formed on the basis of cultural, language, pattern of transport, infrastructure or the social life of the inhabitants.
   • In its message of 12 December 2011 the Universal House of Justice stated that the cluster should have three coordinators appointed by the Training Institute, one concerned with study circles, junior youth groups and a third for children's classes.
   • National Assemblies worldwide divided their countries into clusters on the basis of demographic, geographic, and socio-economic factors. A third of the resulting 15,000 clusters were in Africa.
   • TP176 says that there are now (17 January 2003) close to 17,000 clusters worldwide, excluding those countries where, for one reason or another, the operation of the Faith is restricted. The number of clusters per country varies widely—from India with its 1,580 to Singapore, which necessarily sees itself as one cluster. Some of the groupings are sparsely populated areas with only a few thousand inhabitants, while the boundaries of others encompass several million people. For the most part, large urban centers under the jurisdiction of one Local Spiritual Assembly have been designated single clusters, these in turn being divided into sectors, so as to facilitate planning and implementation.
2. 2005-07-00 —
   The publication of Impact of Growth on Administration Processes by the International Teaching Centre on behalf of the Universal House of Justice.
   • The PDF for Learning to Respond to Emerging New Realities: Messages from the Universal House of Justice can be found here. The document Impact of Growth on Administration Processes is part of that document.
   • See also TP397.
3. 2016-08-04 —
   In a letter to National Spiritual Assemblies, communities were encouraged to establish electoral units on the basis of the cluster. The population of the country is divided by the number of National Convention delegates allowed by the Universal House of Justice to determine the number of electors per delegate. [4 August 2016]
   • See 21 July 1985.

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