Torrington, Connecticut

Torrington
City in the United States
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Torrington is a city in the U.S. State of Connecticut located in Litchfield County in the North-West of the State.

The Bahá’í community of Torrington was established in the 1980s and was consolidated in the early 1990s.

History[edit]

As of 1969 there were no Bahá’ís in Torrington and the National Teaching Committee of the United States made establishing the Faith in the city a goal of the American Bahá’ís.[1] Some Bahá’ís undertook teaching work in the city and a Bahá’í Information Center was established in 1972, however a community did not become established through their efforts and the city had no Bahá’ís by 1981.[2] The National Teaching Committee requested that two pioneers settle in Torrington to restart efforts to establish a community in 1981.[3]

A Bahá’í community was successfully established at some point in the 1980's and in 1991 Torrington had a Local Spiritual Assembly and an active Bahá’í community which was providing support to the U.S. National Bahá’í Fund,[4] although in 1992 the number of Bahá’ís in the city dropped below nine and the National Teaching Committee requested pioneers and travel teachers support efforts to maintain the Torrington Assembly.[5]

The Torrington Assembly was successfully preserved into 1993 and that year it developed a local teaching plan which it submitted to the National Teaching Committee,[6] and launched under the name the Horace A. Holley Teaching Project, naming it after the Hand of the Cause Horace Holley who was born in Torrington.[7] The project was undertaken from July to September of 1993,[8] and resulted in a declaration, several expressions of interest in the Faith, and the refurbishment of a storefront into a Bahá’í information center.[9] As a result of the success of the campaign it was conducted again in 1994.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ National Baha'i Review, No. 14, p 8
  2. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1994). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 25, Issue 14, pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 12, Issue 4, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1991). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 22, Issue 12, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1992). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 23, Issue 5, pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 14, pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 14, pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 11, pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 16, pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1994). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 25, Issue 14, pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
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