Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford
City in the United States
Bahá’í children's class in Hartford, 1957.
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Hartford is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

History[edit]

In 1916 it was reported that a Bahá’í community had been established in Hartford.[1] As of 1931 there were seven Bahá’ís in Hartford, including Mabel Ives,[2] who formally established an organized group,[3] and in 1933 it was reported there had been some growth and an Assembly could potentially be formed.[4] In 1938 a study group was formed with Mountfort Mills serving as its facilitator.[5]

As of 1946 Hartford had five Bahá’ís and had maintained its formal Bahá’í group,[6] by the end of 1947 there were six Bahá’ís,[7] and in 1948 the Local Spiritual Assembly of Hartford was formed.[8] In 1949 George Goodman, chairman of the Hartford Assembly, delivered a talk on the Faith at the Unitarian Church of Hartford which was filled to capacity for the talk,[9] and the community began holding a weekly study course on Bahá’í administration for Bahá’ís and an informal study class for friends of the community.[10]

As of 1957 the Hartford Bahá’í community was holding a weekly children's class on Sunday mornings,[11] and in September 1959 the community launched an intensive teaching campaign centred around a series of lectures titled Five Living Faiths which invited representatives of various religious communities to give speeches including Firuz Kazemzadeh representing the Bahá’í Faith.[12] In 1960 Mildred Mottahedeh delivered a talk on the Faith at a Race Amity Day event hosted by the Hartford Bahá’ís,[13] and the community participated in a celebration of the founding of the United Nations sponsored by the Greater Hartford People-to-People Council.[14]

The Bahá’í Faith received prominent coverage in the Hartford Times in 1963 when the newspaper published an article covering Mark Tobey,[15] and the community commemorated Race Amity Day with a picnic and roundtable discussion.[16] In 1965 the Hartford community was Connecticut's only Bahá’í community to hold a celebration of World Peace Day,[17] and in 1966 the community held public meetings to teach the Faith as part of a week long teaching initiative for the Bahá’ís of Connecticut.[18]

In 1971 the Bahá’í film It's Just the Beginning was broadcast on local Hartford television,[19] and the same year the University of Hartford granted the Bahá’í community an exemption to its rule that organizations could only hire a campus space once a year allowing the community to use its premises as many times as required annually.[20] In 1972 the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States launched a programme of Local Spiritual Assembly seminars in Hartford, intended to assist Local Assemblies in handling the affairs of Bahá’í communities, with Glenford Mitchell conducting a workshop.[21]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Star of the West (December 31, 1916). Bahai News Service. Volume 7, Issue 16. Pg(s) 158. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1931). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 48, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1931). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 57, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1933). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 74, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 117, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 185, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 203, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 209, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 227, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 236, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 316, Pg(s) 22. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 348, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 353, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 357, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 383, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ Baha'i News (1963). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 389, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ Baha'i News (July 1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 317, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 425, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
  19. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1971). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 2, Issue 3, pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  20. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1971). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 2, Issue 5, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  21. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1972). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 3, Issue 1, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
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