Mobile, Alabama
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| - | Local Assembly | 1966 |
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| - | mobilebahais@gmail.com | |
| - | State | Alabama |
| - | Country | United States |
| Official Website | https://www.facebook.com/BahaisofMobile/ | |
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Mobile is a city in the U.S. state of Alabama.
The Bahá’í Faith was proclaimed in the city as early as the 1940s with a small community and Local Spiritual Assembly being established in the 1960s. The community struggled to consolidate itself but became firmly established in the late 1970s and 1980s.
History[edit]
In 1946 Philip Marangella visited Mobile to proclaim the Bahá’í Faith during a teaching tour of Alabama,[1] and in 1955 Auxiliary Board member Margery McCormick visited the city,[2][3] with Mobile being designated a goal city for establishing a Local Spiritual Assembly in June that year.[4] A small amount of Bahá’ís lived in Mobile however the total number never exceeded four and by the 1960's Virginia Gans was the only Bahá’í in the city, although through her teaching efforts Alberta Williford declared early in the decade.[5]
Gans and Williford formed a Bahá’í Group and in 1965 then planned a Bahá’í Youth Institute which was held in October that year and attended by over forty people including friends of the Faith and Auxiliary Board member Jack E. McCants who facilitated a session.[5] The Local Spiritual Assembly of Mobile was established in 1966,[6] although it lapsed the following year.[7]
As of 1978 there were five Bahá’ís living in Mobile,[8] and that year the National Teaching Committee requested pioneers for the city.[9] The Local Spiritual Assembly of Mobile was re-established in 1979, however by December the Bahá’í community had dropped to eight jeapordizing the Assembly.[10] The Assembly was able to be re-elected in 1980 with the National Teaching Committee designating assisting the Mobile Assembly to consolidate itself a goal of the national Bahá’í community.[11] The city had ten Bahá’ís as of 1982,[12] and was able to maintain its Assembly throughout the 1980's.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 183, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 288, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 290, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1955). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 293, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 415, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ US Supplement, No. 101, p 5
- ↑ U.S. Supplement, No. 113, p 6
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 6, pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 2, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1980). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 11, Issue 1, pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1980). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 11, Issue 10, pg(s) 33. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1982). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 13, Issue 4, pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
- ↑ The American Bahá’í (1989). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 20, Issue 2, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
