NSA:North East Africa
North East Africa |
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 First NSA of North East Africa, 1956.
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| - | Established | 1956 |
| - | Succeeded | Egypt and Sudan |
| - | Preceded | West Africa (1964) |
| - | Preceded | West Central Africa (1964) |
| - | Preceded | Ethiopia (1975) |
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The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of North East Africa was a body which administrated the Bahá’í communities of North East Africa.
History[edit]
In October 1954 Shoghi Effendi announced that three National Spiritual Assemblies were to be established to administrate the Faith in Central and East Africa, South and West Africa, and North East Africa during Riḍván in 1956.[1]
The jurisdiction of the North East Africa Assembly was to be Tunisia, Algeria, the Morocco International Zone,Spanish Morocco, French Morocco, Spanish Sahara, Rio de Oro, Spanish Guinea, the Ashanti Protectorate, the French Cameroons, the British Cameroons, Northern Territories Protectorate, French Togoland, British Togoland, the Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, French West Africa, the Gold Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and St. Thomas Island.[1]
The National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and Sudan was originally going to remain independent and have an expanded jurisdiction over some other countries,[1] however instead the Assembly of North East Africa was established in Cairo, absorbing the National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and Sudan, meaning that the new Assembly administrated Abyssinia, Libya, Eritrea, Egypt, British, French and Italian Somaliland, Socotra Island and Sudan in addition to the Countries mentioned above.[2]
In April 1957 the Assembly was officially incorporated with the Egyptian government,[3] however in 1958 the government of Egypt changed when the United Arab Republic was formed and in 1960 the new authorities issued a Decree banning all Bahá’í activity in Egypt. As a result the Assembly was dissolved and succeeded by a regional administrative committee.[4]
In 1961 the Assembly was re-formed in Ethiopia with its seat in Addis Ababa, and it was officially registered with the High Court of Addis Ababa.[4] [5][6] In 1964 the borders for the Regional Assemblies of Africa were redrawn when the National Assemblies of West Africa and West Central Africa were formed, and as of 1969 the Assembly for North East Africa was elected by delegates from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Libya.[7]
In 1975 the Universal House of Justice removed Somalia from the jurisdiction of the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa and renamed the body the National Spiritual Assembly of Ethiopia.[8]
Past members[edit]
| Name | Served |
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| Siyyid Muhammad Azzawi | 1956 - 1960 |
| Hussein Amin Bikar | 1956 - 1960 |
| Mírzá Badí‘ Bushrú’í | 1956 - 1960 |
| Iskandar Hanna | 1956 - 1960 |
| ‘Abdu’l-Rahim Yazdi | 1956 - 1960 |
| Rochan Yazdi | 1956 - 1960 |
| Tewfiq Muhammad Ali | ???? - 1960 |
| Yusuf Mustapha | ???? - 1959 |
| Abbas Rushdy | ???? - 1959 |
| Subhí Eliás | 1959 - 1960 |
| Jamshid Monajem | 1959 - 1960 1961 - 1964 |
| Hushang Ahdieh | 1961 - 1968[9] |
| Fu’ad Ashraf | 1961 - 1963 |
| Gila Michael Bahta | 1961 - ???? |
| Heshmatollah Farhoumand | 1961 - ???? |
| Leo Niederreiter | 1961 - 1975 |
| Ali Hussein Ruhi | 1961 - ???? |
| Gamal Rushdy | 1961 - 1966 |
| Ursula Samandari | 1961 - 1970[10] |
| Techeste Ahderom | 1966 - 1975 |
| Amanuel Mecconnen | ???? - ???? |
| Rebbi Teclomariam | ???? - ???? |
| Mehtsun Tedla | ???? - ???? |
| Asfaw Tessema | ???? - ???? |
| Iraj Yeganeh | ???? - ???? |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Baha'i News (1954). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 285, Pg(s) 2-10 May 2020. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 311, Pg(s) 2-10 May 2020. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 321, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 {{citebw|13|287
- ↑ Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 378, Pg(s) 14-10 May 2020. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://bahai.works/In_Memoriam_1992-1997/Hushang_Ahdieh
- ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 460, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1978). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 16 (1973-1976), Pg(s) 144. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://bahai.works/In_Memoriam_1992-1997/Hushang_Ahdieh
- ↑ Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. pp 50
References[edit]
- 1958-59 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 329, Pg(s) 24. View as PDF.
- 1959-60 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1959). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 341, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
- 1961-62 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 367, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- 1962-63 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 376, Pg(s) 20. View as PDF.
- 1966-67 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 429, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- 1967-68 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1967). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 438, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
- 1969-70 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 460, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- 1973-74 Assembly reported in Baha'i News (1973). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 511, Pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
