Hanoi
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| Hà Nội Hanoi | ||
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| City in Vietnam | ||
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| - | Bahá'í to visit | Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, 1920 |
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Hanoi is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam, located on the banks of the Red River in the north of the country. Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney was the first Bahá’í to visit, arriving in 1920 at a time when the city was the capital of the colony of French Indochina.[1][2] During this visit, Dreyfus-Barney donated Bahá’í books to the École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East). No Bahá’ís are known to have visited in the following decades, during which conflict erupted between rebels and French colonial forces. In 1954, the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (also called North Vietnam) was proclaimed, with Hanoi as its capital.
References[edit]
- ↑ The Universal House of Justice (1978). The Baháʼí World. Vol. 16. Haifa: Baháʼí World Centre. pp. 536–537. ISBN 0-85398-075-6.
- ↑ "Hippolyte Dreyfus, apôtre d'ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" [Hippolyte Dreyfus, Disciple of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá]. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of France. September 2000. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
