Andorra

 Andorra
Participants at celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Bahá’í Faith in Andorra.
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Location of Andorra
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Statistics:
Total Population
 -  UN 2021[1] 79,034
Bahá'í pop.
 -  Bahá'í source  
 -  Non-Bahá'í source 120
History:
Firsts
 -  Local Bahá'í 1954, Carmen Tost Xifre Mingorance
1954, Jose Mingorance 
 -  Pioneers 1953, William Danjon 
 -  Local Assembly 1974 
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Categories: Andorra • People

The Principality of Andorra is a small land locked country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Catalan is the official language and Christianity is the predominant religion. Andorra is bordered on the north by France and the south by Spain. Andorra has an area of 468 sq km (181 sq mi) and a population of 87,486 in 2025.

The country became independent from the Kingdom of Aragon as a principality in 1278. It was made part of the French Empire at some point but achieved independence again in 1814. Its current constitution was adopted in 1993.

The Bahá’í Faith was introduced to Andorra in 1953 with a small community becoming established in the 1970s.

History[edit]

Andorra was one of the European countries listed in Tablets of the Divine Plan: Tablet to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada for expansion written on April 8, 1916.[2][3]

When Shoghi Effendi launched the Ten Year Crusade teaching plan in 1953 Andorra was named a goal territory for the establishment of a Bahá’í community. In October the same year William Danjon pioneered to the country from Denmark. He was supported by Virginia Orbison who made a series of visits to aid him in his teaching work beginning in March 1954.[4]

Carmen Tost Xifre and Jose Mingorance Fernandez declared on July 26, 1954,[4] becoming the first people to accept the Faith in Andorra however growth of the Faith in Andorra was slow and as of 1963 there were less than nine Bahá’ís in the country. In 1974 the community had grown to the point a Local Spiritual Assembly was established.[5]

In August 1979 there was one Local Assembly and three localities in Andorra.[6]

In 2004 the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bahá’í Faith in Andorra was celebrated at an event which included a dinner, musical performances, prayers, and presentations on the history of the countries Bahá’í community.[7] It was estimated that there were around ninety Bahá’ís in Andorra as of 2005.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". population.un.org. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  2. ↑ Tablets of the Divine Plan: Tablet to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada (Tablet 7)
  3. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1939). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. New York City, NY. Volume 7 (1936-1938), Pg(s) 193. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 837. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Earl Redman, The Knights of Baha'u'llah, George Ronald: Oxford, 2017, p 347
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1979). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 581, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2006). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 33 (2004-2005), Pg(s) 75. View as PDF.
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