New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans
City in the United States
Bahá’ís of New Orleans, 1964.
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History:
Firsts
 -  Local Assembly 1942 
How to contact:
 -  Phone 504-524-3931 
Official Website https://nolabahais.org/
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New Orleans is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Several Bahá’í travel teachers visited New Orleans from the 1910s to the 1930s and a community was firmly established in the early 1940s with the Local Spiritual Assembly of New Orleans being established in 1942 which was the first Assembly in Louisiana.

History

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Bahá’í teaching activity took place in New Orleans in the 1910's with Louis Gregory visiting the city in 1916,[1] and Ali Kuli Khan visiting in 1917 on travel teaching trips.[2] In 1928 Keith Ransom-Kehler spent time in New Orleans and was interviewed by press representatives about the Faith,[3] and in late 1929 Siegfried Schopflocher gave public talks on the Faith while visiting the city.[4]

In 1931 Orcella Rexford spent an extended period during which she conducted study classes on the Faith and was able to proclaim the Faith to large numbers of people at public talks,[5] and in 1938 the Bahá’ís of Louisiana and Mississippi began to concentrate their teaching efforts on New Orleans coordinated by Marion Little,[6] and Ruth Moffett visited to teach.[7]

By 1939 Frederick Babo had pioneered to New Orleans and for about a month was able to broadcast a Bahá’í radio programme at a radio station he worked at. He was joined by additional pioneers, his sister Dorothy Logelin, Pearl Berk, and Eloise McAllister who he married in January, 1940.[8] Frederick and Dorothy began hosting a weekly Bahá’í meeting in 1940 which was attended by several interested people and Rex Naugle, Jr., of New Orleans declared that year.[9] Teaching efforts continued and resulted in the Local Spiritual Assembly of New Orleans being established in 1942.[10]

References

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  1. ↑ Star of the West, 7(16), p 158
  2. ↑ Star of the West, 8(5), p 56
  3. ↑ Star of the West, 18(11), p 352
  4. ↑ Baha'i News Letter (1930). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 40, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1931). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 51, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 115, Pg(s) 18. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1938). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 119, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 133, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 138, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 153, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
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