Salisa Kermani
Salisa Kermani (d. 2006) was an Indian Bahá’í who served as an Auxiliary Board member and Continental Counselor. She was named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh for pioneering to Karikal.
Biography[edit]
Kermani was born into a Bahá’í family with her grandfather, Mihraban Rustam Bulbulan, being a Zoroastrian who joined the religion. At some point she married a Mr. Kermani and had pioneered to Poona as of the early 1940's.[1] She moved to Panchgani in 1945 and assisted with establishing a Bahá’í school remaining in Panchgani until 1946. In 1952 she went on pilgrimage for nineteen days with her husband.[2]
In August 1953 Kermani volunteered to pioneer to Karikal, a territory in India which had been named a goal territory of the Ten Year Crusade. She wrote to her husband, who was in Hyderabad on business at the time, and advised him she intended to pioneer and he arranged for her to be accompanied by Shirin Nourani. Kermani and Nourani arrived in Karikal in late August, 1953. In October 1953 they attended the Intercontinental Teaching Conference in New Delhi held to launch the Ten Year Crusade.[3] Kermani was appointed to the Auxiliary Board for Asia in the 1950's while in Karikal.[4]
In 1965 Kermani left Karikal as her husband, who had been unable to move to Karikal, had experienced a decline in health and she needed to care for him. Her husband provided funding to construct a Bahá’í Centre in Karikal and she returned to oversee the construction of the building.[4] In 1976 she was appointed to the Continental Board of Counsellors for South Central Asia serving until 1980 when the body was amalgamated into the newly formed Continental Board for Asia which she was not appointed to.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1977). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 558, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. p 158
- ↑ Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. p 159
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. p 160
- ↑ Baha'i News (1976). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 542, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
