Anguilla

 Anguilla
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Location of Anguilla
National AssemblyWest Leeward Islands
Statistics:
Total Population
 -  UN 2021[1] 15,753
Bahá'í pop.
 -  Bahá'í source  
 -  Non-Bahá'í source 170
History:
Firsts
 -  Bahá'í to visit Francis Foss 
 -  Pioneers Jeffery Lewis 
How to contact:
 -  Email nsa.leewardislands@gmail.com
Official Website http://www.bahai.org/national-communities/leeward-islands
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Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands group in the Caribbean.

History[edit]

Anguilla was under the jurisdiction of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands from 1967. The Assembly advised Bahá’ís not to make travel teaching trips or pioneer to Anguilla due to unrest in November 1967, but by January 1968 they advised that it was safe to visit the territory.[2]

Francis Foss, a St. Martin Bahá’í, made a travel teaching trip to Anguilla in early 1968 and Jeffery Lewis, a Grenadian Bahá’í, pioneered to the territory in 1969 and lived there until 1970.[3]

From 1972 the Bahá’í community of Anguilla was administrated by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward and Virgin Islands[4], from 1981 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward Islands[5] [6], and from 1991 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the West Leeward Islands.[7] In 2006, The National Spiritual Assemblies of the East and West Leeward Islands were merged and Anguilla was assigned to the reformed National Spiritual Assembly of the Leeward Islands.[8]

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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. ↑ http://www.bahaihistorycaribbean.info/html/st__martin__anguilla__saba__st.html
  3. ↑ http://www.bahaihistorycaribbean.info/html/st__martin__anguilla__saba__st.html
  4. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1976). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 15 (1968-1973), Pg(s) 702. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 107. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 171. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ "Bahá'í History of the Caribbean 1920-1984".
  8. ↑ "The Five Year Plan 2001-2006 (Summary)/Appendices".
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