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Flagstaff is a city in the US State of Arizona.
The Bahá’í Faith had been introduced to Flagstaff by the 1950s and an active community had been firmly established by the 1960s.
History[edit]
In 1953 establishing a Bahá’í community in Flagstaff was made a goal of the Bahá’í community for the Ten Year Crusade,[1] and before the end of the year Kit Goldstein had moved to the city to study anthropology at Arizona State College.[2] By 1954 a Bahá’í children's class had been established in Flagstaff,[3] and organized teaching activities were regularly taking place.[4]
As of 1955 regular Bahá’í deepening classes were being held in Flagstaff,[5] and by 1956 Bahá’í students at Arizona State College had joined the colleges Religious Council making the Faith the only non-Christian religion represented on the body.[6] In 1957 a recording of a Bahá’í talk was broadcast on the local radio station KVNA.[7] By 1961 the Flagstaff Bahá’í community owned a camp ground near the city which it was able to use to host events.[8]
A Local Spiritual Assembly of Flagstaff had been established at some point prior to 1965 and that year the Assembly sponsored a four day Summer School which was attended by sixty-five people and was followed by a three day teaching institute.[9] In 1966 the Assembly sponsored an art exhibition which was viewed by over one thousand people.[10]
By 1978 a Bahá’í College Club had been established at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff,[11] and in 1979 ran an advertisement in the campus newspaper. As of 1979 the Flagstaff Bahá’í community also had a radio show on the local station KCLS every Sunday morning[12]
In 1990 Russian born Bahá’í Maya Plaksina visited Flagstaff where she gave public talks on her experience accepting the Bahá’í Faith after emigrating to America in 1978 and her experience sharing the Promise of World Peace message from the Universal House of Justice in Russia in 1989.[13] In 1991 the Flagstaff Bahá’í community began hosting informal meetings to teach the Faith at a local coffee house owned by a Bahá’í.[14]
In 1992 almost two hundred Bahá’ís attended a summer school in Flagstaff at which Marguerite Sears spoke, setting a record for the cities best attended summer school,[15] and in 1994 the Flagstaff Bahá’ís hosted a World Unity Festival attended by over five thousand people from thirty-six different countries.[16] In 1996 a small group of Flagstaff Bahá’ís hosted a two day women's conference on World Peace attended by almost two hundred people.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 272, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 274, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1954). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 282, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 287, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 296, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
- ↑ 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 (1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 313, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ U.S. Supplement, 42, p 4
- ↑ Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 415, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 427, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 4, pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1979). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 10, Issue 2, pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1990). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 21, Issue 5, pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1991). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 22, Issue 9, pg(s) 23. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1992). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 23, Issue 13, pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1994). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 25, Issue 15, pg(s) 22. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1996). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 27, Issue 4, pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
