The Kingdom of Sweden is a country in Northern Europe located on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Swedish is the official language Christianity and Irreligion are the predominant belief systems.
History[edit]
Some Bahá’ís visited Sweden for brief periods as early as 1908. In 1919 August Rudd, a Swedish Bahá’í who had declared in and lived in America, wrote to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá expressing his desire to return to Sweden and he received a reply encouraging him to do so prompting him to pioneer to Sweden in mid 1920. A short time after his arrival Anna Gustavsson declared, later marrying Rudd, and they weere joined by Edvard Olsson, who also pioneered from America, in 1921.[1] Martha Root visited Sweden in 1927 spending time in Stockholm and Uppsala and sending literature to the Royal family of Sweden.[2] Anna Rudd worked to make Bahá’í literature available in Swedish in the 1930's overseeing the publication of a translation of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era in 1932 and a translation of the Kitab-i-Iqan in 1936 as well as several pamphlets.[3]
In 1946 Gustav Sundquist of Stockholm declared after meeting Rafi and Mildred Mottahedeh,[4][5] and as of that year he was the only known Bahá’í living in Sweden.[6] In June 1946 Shoghi Effendi requested that the Bahá’í community of the United States send pioneers to Sweden,[7] and in February 1947 Alice Dudley pioneered to Stockholm and she was joined by Jennie Anderson in March.[8][9] In May 1947 Mason Remey, Bishop Brown, and Brown's wife visited Sweden during travel teaching trips across Europe,[10][11] and before the end of the year Amelia Bowman, Nancy Gates, and Henry Jarvis also pioneered to the country.[12]
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 980. View as PDF.
- ↑ M.R. Garis, Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold, Baha'i Publishing Trust: Wilmette, p 276
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1986). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 18 (1979-1983), Pg(s) 981. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 182, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 183, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 188, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 192, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 197, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 199, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 201, Pg(s) 1-12. View as PDF.
