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Cedar Falls is a U.S. city in the state of Iowa. The cities Bahá'í community was large enough for a Local Spiritual Assembly to be established as of 1964.
History[edit]
The first Bahá'í to teach the Faith in Cedar Falls was likely Ruth Moffett who visited the city and gave several talks on the Faith at Iowa State College in 1939.[1] She returned to Cedar Falls in mid-1941 during an intensive teaching campaign in Iowa.[2] By 1950 there was at least one isolated Bahá'í living in Cedar Falls,[3] and by 1954 there was an organised Bahá'í group.[4]
In 1955 the Methodist Wesley Foundation at Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls requested a Bahá'í speaker visit to give a talk on the Faith, as they were studying comparative religion.[5] In 1959 another request for a Bahá'í speaker was made by the Iowa State Teacher's College, this time in relation to a 'Religion in Life Week' event.[6]
In 1964 the Local Spiritual Assembly of Cedar Falls was established.[7] In July 1964 the new Assembly held a panel discussion with speakers from a local High School, the State College of Iowa, and a Bahá'í coming together to speak on racial integration. The event was attended by fifty-eight adults and twenty children.[8] In 1966 the Cedar Falls Bahá'ís collaborated with the Waterloo Bahá'ís on a Race Unity Day event, which was noted as one of many excellent efforts across the U.S. in Bahá'í News.[9]
The Association of Religion Data Archives estimated that the Bahá'í community of Black Hawk County, the County in which Cedar Falls is situated, had 41 members as of 2010.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1939). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 131, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1952?). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 11 (1946-1950), Pg(s) 534. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. Wilmette, Ill. Volume 12 (1950-1954), Pg(s) 730. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 293, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1970). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 13 (1954-1963), Pg(s) 773. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 405, Pg(s) 23. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 404, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 425, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
- ↑ http://www.thearda.com/ql2010/QL_C_2010_2_994c.asp
