Alhambra, California

Alhambra
LSA of Alhambra, 1943.
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Alhambra is a city in the U.S. State of California and Los Angeles County.

History

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The Local Spiritual Assembly of Alhambra was established in 1940,[1] however it disbanded the following year due to the city no longer having nine Bahá’í residents.[2]

By late 1942 regular firesides and public meetings to proclaim and teach the Faith were being held in the city,[3] and Ernest Schiemann, his wife, and Mayme Glass pioneered to the city to support teaching efforts.[4][5] These efforts resulted in the Alhambra Assembly being re-established in 1943,[6] and in September that year Dorothy Baker visited the city while travel teaching.[7]

As of 1948 the Alhambra Assembly was supporting regular firesides and Bahá’í study classes,[8] and by 1950 the community was using library displays and newspaper advertisements to publicize the Faith.[9] In 1956 a Naw-Ruz celebration in Alhambra was attended by seventy people,[10] and in 1959 a World Religion Day display was exhibited in an Alhambra public library for a week.[11] Also in 1959 Charles Wolcott, member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the U.S., chaired a symposium at a United Nations Day commemoration in Alhambra.[12]

The Alhambra community lapsed at some point with the city having just three adult Bahá’ís by 1978,[13] and the community remained small having six Bahá’ís by the start of 1995.[14] Before the end of 1995 Alhambra's Bahá’í community had grown to nine members,[15] however it dropped to eight by March 1996 preventing the re-establishment of a Local Assembly.[16]

References

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  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 136, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 145, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 156, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 159, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 161, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 163, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 167, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 411, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 229, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 304, Pg(s) 18. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1959). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 337, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1959). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 346, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 6, pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1995). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 26, Issue 3, pg(s) 35. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1995). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 26, Issue 9, pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1996). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 27, Issue 2, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
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