Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince
City in Haiti
First LSA of Port-au-Prince, 1942.
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History:
Firsts
 -  Pioneers Ellsworth and Ruth Blackwell 
 -  Local Assembly 1942 
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Port-au-Prince is the capital city and most populous city of Haiti. The city had an estimated population of 1,200,000 in 2022. The city has a natural harbor, the Gulf of Gonâve.

History[edit]

Mrs. Ruth Blackwell arrived in Port-au-Prince in 1940 and planned to rent a house suitable for facilitating the teaching work when her husband, Mr. Ellsworth Blackwell arrived. She also requested pamphlets in French to assist in the teaching work. She indicated that the Catholics made it difficult to teach openly.[1]

The Local Spiritual Assembly of Port-au-Prince was established on April 21, 1942.[2]

The National Assembly of the United States announced the reformation of a Local Spiritual Assembly in Port-au-Prince at Ridván 1943. The Blackwells reported that there home was the center of Bahá’í activities there. Mrs. McBean also is devoted to making things comfortable for the friends and supplying refreshments for the Feasts.[3]

In January 1944, it was announced that there were 2 new Bahá’ís in Port-au-Prince and that the National Assembly of the United States was assisting the local Bahá’ís there to broaden the scope of their teaching activities.[4]

In December 1948, Gayle Woolson was a pioneer to Port-au-Prince.[5]

In October 1952, the National Assembly of the United States announced:[6]

  • The appointment of an English Teaching Committee to first take care of the English-Speaking communities of Colon, Canal Zone, Port-au_Prince, Kingston, Spanish Town and Port Antonio and second to gain experience for the upcoming Ten Year Crusade.
  • The community of Port-au-Prince would be responsible for the French version of the Central American Newsletter to be published in English, Spanish, and French. The newsletter was to be distributed to their own French speaking believers, the Guardian, the Geneva International Bureau, and to French-speaking communities of the world.
  • The Bahá’í Community of Port-au-Prince received a donation from Eustace N. Bailey of a property about four miles from the city proper as soon as the Assembly could be incorporated.

In January 1953, Mr. Guillermo Aguilar, a Bahá’í from Lima, Peru, was directing the establishment of a technological school for Haiti on behalf of the United Nations. He was been active in the Bahá’í work there and given talks on the United Nations and its specialized agencies.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 136, Pg(s) 4-5. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 162, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1943). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 164, Pg(s) 9-10. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 167, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 221, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1952). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 260, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 263, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
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