Fahima Elias
Fahima 'Raissa' Elias (1920 - 28 June 2014) was a Bahá'í who was named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh for pioneering to French Somaliland, now Djibouti.
Biography[edit]
Fahima married Sabri in 1941 and in 1944 they went on pilgrimage together then pioneered to Addis Ababa where a Local Spiritual Assembly was established in 1947.[1] In 1954 Shoghi Effendi asked the Addis Ababa community to send a family to move to French Somaliland to reopen the country to the Faith and the Elias's pioneered with their two youngest children. In 1956 the first Local Spiritual Assembly in French Somaliland was formed through their efforts, and they returned to Egypt in 1959.
The Egyptian government began to oppress the Bahá'í community in the 1960's and in 1968 the Elias's moved to Libya for three years before returning to Alexandria in Egypt. In 1977 they pioneered to Djibouti again until 1988 when they returned to Alexandria. After Sabri passed in 1995 Fahima moved to Morocco and Syria to teach however after breaking a hip she returned to Egypt and lived in Cairo with a daughter until passing in 2014.
References[edit]
- Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. pp 58-61
Notes[edit]
- ↑ "News from Other Lands". Baha'i News. No. 199. United States: National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. September 1947. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
