Yerrinbool Bahá’í School

Yerrinbool Bahá’í School is a Bahá’í inspired school in Yerrinbool, Australia. It was founded in 1937.

History

In 1937, one hundred delegates and observers attending the national Bahá’í convention in Sydney celebrated the founding of the Yerrinbool Bahá’í School which was next to "Bolton Place" founded just the year before. Kitchen and dining facilities were added in 1946. In 1947 non-Bahá’í speakers Harold Morton, a Sydney radio announcer, and Muslim Fazel (Frank) Khan presented at the school and the Khan family converted shortly thereafter. By 1963 the Yerrinbool Bahá’í School was wholly owned and managed by the National Spiritual Assembly. The second national youth conference was held at Yerrinbool in 1970 and succeeding youth conferences were held in Canberra (1972), Adelaide (1973), Perth (1974), Canberra (1975), Brisbane (1976), Sydney (1977), Hobart (1978), and Melbourne (1979). In 1983 the schools program included summer, spring and autumn schools, three deepening institutes, an annual studies conference, a "Third World Awareness" weekend sponsored by the Sydney Bahá’í youth, Bahá’ís studies conferences sponsored by the University of Tasmania Bahá’í Society which lead to the initial formation of the Association for Bahá’í Studies chapter in Australia whose first meeting was at Yerrinbool. More recently, Yerringbool Bahá’í School was formally registered as a not-for-profit college in Australia under the name of Yerringbool Bahá’í Center for Learning Ltd (YBCL).