Danville, Illinois

Danville
City in the United States
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Danville is a city in the U.S. State of Illinois.

History

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In 1938 the Urbana Bahá’í community began to focus on teaching the Faith in Danville and Bahá’í meetings to teach the Faith began to be held in the city.[1][2] In 1940 the Urbana Assembly sponsored a teaching campaign in Danville which consisted of nineteen talks which resulted in two study groups forming,[3] and by 1941 a formal Bahá’í Group had been established.[4] In 1943 Danville had a Local Spiritual Assembly.[5]

In 1945 five people attending a study class on the Faith declared,[6] and in 1946 Farhang Javid visited the community and helped facilitate a study of the Dawn-Breakers.[7] In 1948 the Danville community sponsored a Fellowship Meeting to foster stronger ties between the Bahá’ís of Danville and the Bahá’ís of Urbana.[8]

The Danville Bahá’ís held an event to commemorate World Religion Day in 1952 which was attended by fifty people.[9] By 1955 the Danville Assembly had lapsed and restoring the Assembly was noted as a goal of the U.S. Bahá’í community.[10]

In 1964 the Danville Bahá’í community participated in Danville's Annual Interfaith Tea for the first time, [11] and in 1967 a Bahá’í was invited to deliver a class in a series on history of religion at a junior college in Danville.[12] Also in 1967 Salvatore Pelle delivered a talk in Danville resulting in increased publicity of the Faith in the city.[13]

During 1986 a teaching project to promote the Faith was ongoing in Danville.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1939). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 122, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1939). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 126, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 141, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 164, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 178, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 182, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (November 1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 213, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1952). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 254, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 293, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 407, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 436, Pg(s) 22. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 431, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ The American Baha'i, Vol. 17(7), p 10
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