Colorado

Colorado
Location of Colorado
History:
Firsts
 -  Local Assembly 1908, Denver 

Colorado is a state of the United States of America.

History[edit]

A Bahá’í community was established in Colorado in the early 1900's with a community of approximately twenty existing in Denver early in the decade.[1] Instrumental to the initial establishment of the community was Mrs. A. M. Bryant who became a Bahá’í in 1900 and received a Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá advising her to establish a community in Denver in 1903.[2] By 1908 the Denver community had fallen stagnant due to people leaving the city and losing interest in the religion and regular meetings were not being held.[1]

Thornton Chase visited Denver in 1908 and gave a talk on the Faith resulting in some publicity and some Bahá’í s began distributing pamphlets, however the community remained mostly inactive immediately after his visit.[1] Later in the year Mrs. A. M. Bryant oversaw efforts to establish regular activity, establishing a reading room for meetings on November 1 and she received a Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the Denver Bahá’ís which addressed them as the Denver Assembly.[3] As of 1910 the Denver Bahá’í community was holding four regular weekly meetings,[4][5] and in 1911 Corinne True and Thornton Chase visited the city further stimulating teaching efforts.[6]

When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá toured the United States in 1912 He visited Colorado delivering a talk in Denver on September 24, 1912.[7] In one of the Tablets of the Divine Plan revealed on April 1, 1916, in the Holy Land ‘Abdu’l-Bahá noted Colorado as one of the states of the USA where the Faith had been firmly established, calling on the Bahá’ís of the State to assist in establishing the religion elsewhere in the country.[8]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Baha'i Bulletin, No. 1, p 15
  2. ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 10, p 343
  3. ↑ Baha'i Bulletin, No. 2/3, p 18
  4. ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 1(3), p 17
  5. ↑ Baha'i News Letter (December, 1924). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 1, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 2(5), p 8
  7. ↑ 'Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, US Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1982 Edition, p 334
  8. ↑ 'Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of the Divine Plan, US Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1993 Edition, pp 21-22
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