Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Fayetteville is a city in the U.S. State of Arkansas. It is one of five cities in Arkansas to have a Local Spiritual Assembly as of 2015.[1]
History[edit]
In 1956 Bahá’í student Tim Rost made arrangements for David Ruhe to deliver an eight class course on the Faith at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.[2]
A small Bahá’í community had been established by 1968 and an event to celebrate Naw-Rúz was held in the city that year,[3] and a Local Spiritual Assembly of Fayetteville was established in 1969.[4] The same year the Assembly was formed a Bahá’í Club was established at the University of Arkansas and the Bahá’í community held a week of events at the end of October during which a copy of The Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh was presented to the Mayor of Fayetteville.[5]
By the early 1980's the Fayetteville Assembly had lapsed and in 1982 Karen and Jeff Jentz pioneered to the city to assist in restoring the Assembly.[6] That year the Fayetteville Bahá’í community collaborated with three other Arkansas communities to host a booth at Washington County Fair at which five hundred people received Bahá’í literature,[7] and the community began hosting weekly firesides with their efforts leading to the successful re-establishment of the Assembly in 1983.[6]
In 1988 the Fayetteville Bahá’í community and the Washington County Bahá’í community volunteered to clean up the Oaks Cemetery in Fayetteville as a service project to commemorate Ayyam-i-Ha,[8] and collaborated with the Washington County and Eureka Springs communities to hold a fund-raising dinner to commemorate Naw-Rúz.[9]
The Fayetteville Local Assembly was in danger of lapsing again in 1991 with pioneers being requested to assist in teaching the Faith in the community,[10] and by 1992 there were less than nine Bahá’ís living in the city,[11] although by 1995 the community had stabilized and the Fayetteville Assembly was able to co-sponsor a teaching project to establish a Bahá’í community in Fort Smith.[12] As of 1998 there was an active Bahá’í Association at the University of Arkansas.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bah%C3%A1%C3%ADs-4312/
- ↑ Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 302, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1968). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 447, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 460, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 466, Pg(s) 22. View as PDF.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The American Bahá’í (1983). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 14, Issue 7, pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1983). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 14, Issue 1, pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 19, Issue 5, pg(s) 21. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 19, Issue 6, pg(s) 32. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1991). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 22, Issue 7, pg(s) 26. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1992). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 23, Issue 4, pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1995). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 26, Issue 8, pg(s) 20. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1998). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 29, Issue 2, pg(s) 29. View as PDF.
