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Umeå is a town in northern Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. The city is located on the Ume River.
Umeå is the biggest city in Norrland and the twelfth biggest in Sweden, with 121,032 inhabitants in 2016.[1] The municipality had 119,613 inhabitants at the end of 2014.[2] When the university was established in 1965, growth sped up, and the amount of housing has doubled in the last 30 years. As of 2011, 700 to 800 new apartments are constructed each year.[3]
Umeå is a university town and centre of education, technical and medical research in Sweden, with two universities and over 39,000 students. The city was elected as the European Capital of Culture of 2014.
About the Bahá’í Faith in Umeå[edit]
Thousands of new students every year in combination with the many people from Sweden and other countries who settle down in Umeå every year to work result in new faces in the Umeå Bahá’í Community every year. The members are from Sweden, Iran, Norway, Finland, Russia, Iraq, Africa and Mauritius. The Local Spiritual Assembly of Umeå is northernmost in Sweden.
Every year in the end of May when the Bahá'í believers in Umeå remembering Bahá’u’lláh leaving this world, the sunrise in Umeå is about the same time as His decease (03:05 in Bahji house outside Akko). In 20 years we have gathered together with friends from the whole north Sweden on Mount Hamptiaern outside Umeå this very special night, and this year prayers and Bahá’u’lláh's own words were read in six languages.
The Local Spiritual Assembly in Umeå was founded 1973. Before that, there was a Bahá’í Association with about 4–8 Bahá’ís since 1963. In March 2012 there were 13 adult Bahá’í believers in Umeå and 10 children and junior youth.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Localities 2010, area, population and density in localities 2005 and 2010 and change in area and population". Statistics Sweden. 29 May 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012.
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- ↑ "More about Umeå". Umeå Municipality. Archived from the original on 18 September 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
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