Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor
First LSA of Ann Arbor, 1942.
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Ann Arbor is a city of the U.S. State of Michigan.

History[edit]

Among the earliest efforts to establish the Bahá’í Faith in Ann Arbor was a teaching trip maded by Louis Gregory in 1928. He visited the University of Michigan where he met with students and professors and gave a talk to the Department of Sociology, and he also delivered a talk at a Baptist Church and an Educational Conference.[1]

By 1930 there was a small Bahá’í community in Ann Arbor,[2] and in 1932 Bertha Hyde Kirkpatrick pioneered to the city for the winter in order to support teaching efforts,[3] ultimately moving to the city permanently by 1934.[4] Louis Gregory returned to the city in 1936 speaking at six meetings to teach the Faith,[5] and by 1937 there was an organised Bahá’í group in the city.[6] In 1938 Lydia Zamenhof visited the city and spoke at the Michigan League and Burton High School,[7] and Bertha Kirkpatrick began writing to local press as a means of proclaiming the Faith in the city.[8]

In 1940 Dorothy Baker visited Ann Arbor to teach the Faith,[9] and in 1941 Bahá’ís participated in the Eighth International Conference of the New Education Fellowship which was held in Ann Arbor and gathered several delegates from Latin American countries.[10][11] In January 1942 Ann Arbor was noted as a city in which a Local Spiritual Assembly could potentially be established,[12] and this was accomplished the same year.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News Letter (1929). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 30, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1930). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 46, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1932). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 62, Pg(s) 20-21. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1934). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 87, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1936). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 100, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1937). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 107, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 116, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 121, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 139, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 146, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 147, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 150, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (July, 1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 154, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
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