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São Paulo
City in Brazil
Bahá’í Community of São Paulo, 1948.
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 -  Local Assembly 1947 
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São Paulo (/ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊloʊ/; (Portuguese for Saint Paul)) is a city in Brazil. It is the largest city in Brazil, the fourth largest city in the world, and the largest Portuguese speaking city in the world. The Bahá’í community of the city was established in the 1940's.

History[edit]

In September, 1919, Martha Root visited São Paulo during a teaching tour of Brazil,[1] and during her visit she met with the editor of the cities largest newspaper and the director of the Rockefeller Foundation and donated Bahá’í literature to a library.[2]

In 1941 Rafi and Mildred Mottahedeh visited São Paulo during a visit to Brazil.[3] As of late 1942 Jean Silver was making plans to pioneer to São Paulo although she was ultimately unable to do so.[4] Beatrice Irwin visited during a teaching tour in 1942 and distributed Bahá’í literature to prominent intellectuals in the city,[5] and Mason Remey visited during a teaching tour in 1945.[6]

In 1946 Gertrude Eisenberg moved to São Paulo to assist in establishing a Bahá’í community,[7] Shirley Warde spent several weeks in the city to assist her in teaching efforts,[8] and a Bahá’í Group was established.[9] Eisenberg returned to the United States before the end of the year but Edmund and Elma Miessler, and Dr. Thomás W. Sánchez de Egea,[10] were able to pioneer to support the fledgling community.[11]

As of the start of 1947 there were five Bahá’ís in São Paulo and the city had been designated a goal city for the establishment of a Local Spiritual Assembly.[12] The Miessler's had established a study class with fifty-two people having attended it,[13] and twenty-two attending regularly.[14] Robert and Margot Miessler, Edmund's siblings, pioneered to the city during the year,[15] and the Local Spiritual Assembly was established.[16]

In January 1949 the annual Bahá’í South American Congress and Summer School was held in São Paulo,[17] and the São Paulo Bahá’ís organized several meetings to teach the Faith during the Congress with the event receiving local press coverage.[18] As of that year a Portuguese Publishing Committee for South America had been established and was based in São Paulo.[19]

As of 1950 the São Paulo community was holding two regular firesides, weekly public meetings, deepening classes, and a youth group a children's group.[20] When the National Spiritual Assembly of South America was established in 1951 São Paulo was assigned two delegates for the election.[21] A southern Regional Teaching Committee of South America was established by the National Assembly and was based in São Paulo.[22] In 1953 several Bahá’í meetings held in São Paulo were televised,[23] and an All-Brazil Study Conference was held in a newly acquired Bahá’í Centre in the city.[24]

In 1961 the Bahá’í community of São Paulo began efforts to establish a Bahá’í television program with contacts being made for the community with television companies by Californian Bahá’í Sid Bulkin.[25] In 1968 Rúhíyyih Khánum visited the city during a tour of South America with a two day Bahá’í Conference being held during her visit.[26] In 1970 a major Bahá’í conference for southern Brazil was held in São Paulo which was attended by one hundred people.[27]

São Paulo was the site of one of the 41 regional conferences of the Five Year Plan in 2008.[28]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 11, p 116
  2. ↑ Star of the West, Vol. 11, p 117
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 147, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 157, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 151, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 179, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 181, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 183, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 184, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 186, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 192, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 200, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 196, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1981). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 17 (1976-1979), Pg(s) 431. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ Baha'i News (1948). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 206, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 218, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  19. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 222, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  20. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 237, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  21. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 240, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  22. ↑ Baha'i News (1952). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 252, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  23. ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 265, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  24. ↑ Baha'i News (1953). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 274, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  25. ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 367, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  26. ↑ Baha'i News (1968). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 447, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  27. ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 477, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  28. ↑ "Regional Conferences of the Five Year Plan". Bahá'í World News Service. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
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