Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Eureka Springs
City in the United States
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Eureka Springs is a city in the U.S. State of Arkansas located in Carroll County in the Ozark Mountains. It was the second Arkansas city to have a Local Spiritual Assembly.

History

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In 1938 Rezsi Sunshine taught the Faith in Eureka Springs during a three month teaching trip to Arkansas and Bahá’í literature was requested by a local public library.[1] By 1946 Sunshine was facilitating a study class for eight people interested in the Faith in the city,[2] and Alvin Blum visited to teach the same year.[3]

In 1948 Roberta Wilson pioneered to Eureka Springs,[4] allowing for the establishment of its Local Spiritual Assembly that year.[5] In 1950 the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States noted that Eureka Springs would benefit from additional pioneers,[6] and in 1957 the Eureka Springs Bahá’í community arranged for a statement authored by the National Assembly on the Oneness of Mankind to be printed in a local newspaper.[7]

The Local Spiritual Assembly of Eureka Springs lapsed at some point and there was no Assembly of organized Bahá’í Group in the city as of 2015.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 119, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 179, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 209, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 210, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 229, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 321, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bah%C3%A1%C3%ADs-4312/
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