Keokuk, Iowa

Keokuk
City in the United States
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Floyd Donley, chair of the Keokuk Bahá'í group, presenting Bahá'í books to librarian Doris Foley of the Keokuk Public Library, 1967.

Keokuk is a city in the U.S. state of Iowa which serves as the county seat of Lee County. It is notable from a Bahá'í perspective for being the first city in Iowa to have an organized Bahá'í community.

History[edit]

There were Bahá'ís resident in Keokuk by the early 1910's, and a Bahá'í 'Assembly' (which was not equivalent to a modern Local Spiritual Assembly) sent a delegate to the 1914 election of the Bahá’í Temple Unity.[1]

As the Administrative Order began to develop the Bahá’í presence in Keokuk was not large enough to establish a Local Spiritual Assembly, and they instead organized as a Bahá’í group which had an official correspondent by 1928.[2] Keith Ransom-Kehler visited the Keokuk Bahá’ís in November 1929.[3]

In 1947 a copy of Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era was donated to Keokuk's library.[4] In 1967 the chair of the Keokuk Bahá’í group presented two Bahá’í books to the Keokuk Library.[5]

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives the Bahá’í community of Lee County had an estimated size of just eight members as of 2000 and 2010.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Star of the West 5(10), p 3
  2. ↑ Bahá’í World, Vol. 2, p 186
  3. ↑ Baha'i News Letter (1930). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 40, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 192, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 436, Pg(s) 24. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ http://www.thearda.com/ql2010/QL_C_2000_2_994p.asp
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