Golvardi Ghandian
Golvardi Ghandian (1912 - September 7, 1989) was a Persian Bahá’í who was martyred in Iran.
Background[edit]
Ghandian was born into a Muslim family in Sangsar in 1912. He investigated the Bahá’í Faith in his youth and declared in 1935 and later pioneered to the village Qoroq in 1958 where he helped establish a Local Spiritual Assembly.[1]
Some of the local populace of Qoroq was hostile to the Bahá’í Faith and while living in the town Ghandian faced verbal abuse, vandalism of his property, people stoning cattle which he owned, and his water and electricity being disconnected. On September 7, 1989, a group of men broke into his home at 3 a.m., tied up his wife, and murdered him by strangulation. He was buried by his family in Fazelabad in accordance with Bahá’í law.[1]
