Watertown, Massachusetts

Watertown
City in the United States
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History:
Firsts
 -  Local Assembly 1978 
How to contact:
 -  Phone 1‑800‑228‑6489[1] 
 -  Email watertown.ma.lsa@gmail.com[1] 
 -  State Massachusetts
 -  Country United States
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Watertown is a city in the U.S. State of Massachusetts.

History

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Early efforts to proclaim the Bahá’í Faith in Watertown were through the Perkins School for the Blind, the first school for the blind established in the United States, with a Braille edition of the Kitáb-i-Iqán being donated to the school in 1935,[2] and by 1940 a Braille copy of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era had been donated.[3]

As of 1978 there were five Bahá’ís in the city and the community was set the goal of establishing a Local Spiritual Assembly that year,[4] and the Local Spiritual Assembly of Cambridge coordinated efforts to secure a pioneer family to the city.[5] A mass teaching project was launched in Massachusetts before the end of the year which resulted in a declaration in Watertown and two homefront pioneers moved to the city allowing for the Local Spiritual Assembly to be established.[6]

As of 1982 the Watertown Assembly was in danger of lapsing,[7] however it was ultimately maintained and was noted as being among the U.S. Assemblies regularly contributing to the National Fund in 1991.[8] The Assembly became jeapordized again in 1993 with a request for pioneers being published in the American Bahá’í.[9]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baha'is of Watertown at The Pluralism Project
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1935). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 94, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1940). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 135, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 2, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 4, pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1978). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 9, Issue 12, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1982). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 13, Issue 4, pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1993). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 24, Issue 9, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
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