Oakland | ||
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| City in the United States | ||
 Bahá’ís of Oakland, 1910.
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| Location of Oakland
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| History: Firsts |
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| - | Local Bahá'í | 1899, Helen Goodall 1899, Ella Cooper |
| - | Local Assembly | 1907 |
| How to contact: | ||
| - | Phone | 510-534-3883 |
| - | secretariat@bahaifaithoakland.org | |
| - | Address | The Oakland Bahá'í Center 1434 35th Ave Oakland, CA 94601 |
| - | State | California |
| - | Country | United States |
| Official Website | https://www.bahaifaithoakland.org/ | |
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Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay area, in the U.S. state of California. A Bahá’í community was established in the city in the early 1900s which was the first on the Western coast of the United States.
History[edit]
The first Bahá’ís of Oakland were Helen Goodall and her daughter Ella Cooper who heard of the religion through a friend in 1898 then traveled to New York in December that year to study it through Ibrahim George Kheiralla. They stayed in New York for an extended period and were members of the first Western pilgrim group which traveled from New York to Akka in March 1899 to meet with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and upon returning to America they established the Bahá’í community of Oakland,[1] and midway through 1899 Charlotte E. Brittingham Dixon visited Oakland to teach classes on the Bahá’í Faith.[2]
Due to its geographic isolation from the rest of the Bahá’í communities of America information about the Faith was slow to reach Oakland which relied on visits from travel teachers including Thornton Chase and Isabella D. Brittingham for information about the religion however the community slowly grew and established a consultative body, a precursor to a Local Spiritual Assembly, in 1907.[3] In July 1907 the Oakland Bahá’ís donated $400 towards the construction of a Bahá’í House of Worship in the United States,[4] and in 1908 Emogene Hoagg sent a letter to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá requesting permission to construct a House of Worship in Oakland with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá approving but only if efforts could be undertaken without weakening undergoing efforts to construct a House of Worship in Chicago.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman (1995). The Bahá’í Faith in America Volume 2: Early Expansion 1900-1912. United Kingdom: George Ronald. p. 134. ISBN 0853983887.
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman (1995). The Bahá’í Faith in America Volume 2: Early Expansion 1900-1912. United Kingdom: George Ronald. p. 135. ISBN 0853983887.
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman (1995). The Bahá’í Faith in America Volume 2: Early Expansion 1900-1912. United Kingdom: George Ronald. p. 192. ISBN 0853983887.
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman (1995). The Bahá’í Faith in America Volume 2: Early Expansion 1900-1912. United Kingdom: George Ronald. p. 279. ISBN 0853983887.
- ↑ Robert H. Stockman (1995). The Bahá’í Faith in America Volume 2: Early Expansion 1900-1912. United Kingdom: George Ronald. p. 286. ISBN 0853983887.
