- 1938-00-00 — The first Bahá'í to be resident in Finland, Aminda Josephine Kruka, an American nurse, arrived in the country.
- 1938-07-00 —
The first Finnish Bahá'í, Pastor Väinö Rissanen, accepted the Faith. He was taught by Miss Josephine Kruka [BW8:935; BW17:129]
- For a letter from him about Finland see BW8:936.
- 1962-04-21 —
The National Spiritual Assembly of Finland was formed. Since 1957 they had been part of the Regional Spiritual Assembly of Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden) plus Denmark and Finland. [BW13:283]
- For picture see BW13:277 or BN No373 August 1962 p6.
One of the founding members was Maija Pihlainen. She later served as a member of the Auxiliary Boards in Finland and of the Continental Board of Counsellors in Europe from 1995 to 2000. [UK Bahá'í News 23 February 2025]
- 1966-05-19 — The first legally recognized Bahá'í wedding in Europe took place in Finland. [BW14:154]
- 1970-01-25 — Valde Nyman, the first full Gypsy in Finland to become a Bahá'í, enrolled in Helsinki.
- 1974-08-11 — The first Teaching Conference of the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe took place in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. [BW16:110]
The conference was seen as an historic one in that it was the first to which participants had come to order to discuss the whole area of the European Arctic and sub-Arctic stretching from Finland in the west in Greenland in the east, from Svalbard in the extreme north to the Scottish islands in the south.
Iceland is the only country in Europe that has planned and systematically carried out, year by year, a program of proclamation (now in its fourth year) that has taken the Faith throughout the entire country, north, south, east and west. (Betty Reed, Continental Board of Counsellors for Europe)
[BN No 525 8 December 1974 p10-11]
- 1976-07-05 —
An International Teaching Conference was held in Helsinki, Finland, attended by some 950 Bahá'ís. [BW17:81; VV33]
- For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:129–30.
- For pictures see BW17:109, 112, 114–15.
- 1979-04-21 — The first local spiritual assembly in Lapland was formed in Kemi, Finland.
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