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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• April A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
Shoghi Effendi announces that the
Council of the League of Nations had pronounced in favour of the Bahá'í
petition regarding the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad. Unfortunately,
King Faisal, a Sunni, relents under the pressure of the Shi'iah element
and the property was never returned. [Bahá'í News Letter, no. 31 (April 1929), p.6, SETPE1p169] |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• April A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The New History Society is founded
in New York by ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's former secretary and interpreter Ahmad
Sohrab. [BRRSM124, LDG2p134]
- It comes into conflict with the
local Bahá'í Assembly, which sees the organization as a threat to the
unity of the Bahá'í Faith. [BBRSM124]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• May A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The American National Spiritual Assembly incorporates as a voluntary Trust. [BBRSM122; GPB335]
- This enables the National Spiritual Assembly to hold property, receive bequests and enter into contracts. [BBRSM122; GPB335–6]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 4 May A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
When the British Mandate in
Palestine had been set up, an Order-in-Council had been enacted that
allowed each of the recognized religious communities to be administered
in all affairs of personal status according to their own religious laws
and courts. The Bahá'í community had not, however, been accorded this
"recognized" status and was thus compelled to submit to the Muslim
Courts. In 1929 Shoghi Effendi asked Mountfort Mills to raise the matter
with the authorities and the Bahá'í Community of Haifa formally
petitions the government that the Bahá'í laws on personal status be
recognized in Palestine. [BBR459; PP284]
- Recognition is granted later in the year. [BBR459; DH116; PP284]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• Summer A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
Shoghi Effendi makes plans to hold
an international conference to consider, among other things, how to
establish national spiritual assemblies as a prelude to the Universal
House of Justice. [PP250]
- He cancels the conference when he
perceives that the Bahá'ís will find it a source of confusion and
misunderstanding. [BBRSM126; PP250]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 12 August A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
Green Acre becomes a fully fledged
Bahá'í summer school when the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís
of the United States and Canada obtains legal title to the property.
[BBD91; GAP118; GPB340; SBBH126, Green Acre] |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• End of August A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
Martha Root arrives in Albania, the first Bahá'í to set foot in the country. [MR317]
- She obtains an audience with King Zog I and is warmly received by him. [MR319]
- For Martha Root's own account of her stay in Albania see MR319–20.
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• September A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
Shoghi Effendi sails from England to Cape Town and proceeds overland to Cairo. [PP180–1, SETPE1p163]
- He travelled through East Africa passing through Rhodesia where he
visited the grave of Cecil Rhodes and further north in Rhodesia to see
the Victoria Falls.
- He rode as a passenger through part of East Africa with an English hunter and travelled on a train for some five hundred miles.
- He crossed the Nile River through a papyrus swamp on a ferry.
- He was back in Haifa by October. [SETPE1p163]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 September A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The British Bahá'ís open their new centre, at Walmar House, Upper Regent Street, London. [PSBW46–7] |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 14 September A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The Green Acre Trustees are appointed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada. [GAP118] |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 6 / 26 November A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The case of the House of
Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád is taken before the sixteenth session of the
Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations. [BW4:237]
- The text of the petition was conceived and drafted by Monfort
Mills. Shoghi Effendi paid tribute to his work in a letter dated March
20, 1929. [BA180]
- The right of the Bahá'ís to the House is
upheld and the government of Iraq is strongly pressed to find a solution
but the House is not returned to the Bahá'ís. [BW4:237; GBF35; PP96–7]
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 27 November A.D. 1929
• A.M. |
The Mansion at Bahjí is evacuated
by the Covenant-breakers after the occupation by Muḥammad-Alí and his
relatives for about 40 years. [DH116; GPB355–6; PP231-232, SETPE1p174]
- During this time they showed no respect for the Holy Site; a blacksmith shop was set up near the entrance to the Shrine. [SE125]
- For details of how the building is left see GBP356.
- For pictures of its neglected state see DH116.
- Covenant-breakers continue to occupy the adjacent house until June 1957. [PP233]
- See SE126 for Shoghi Effendi's plan for a Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh.
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1930
• A.M. |
Leonora Holsapple Armstrong visits Gibraltar, the first Bahá'í to do so. |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• 2 January A.D. 1930
• A.M. |
Martha Roots meets with King Faisal
of Iraq in Baghdad. The King says that a committee has been formed to
study the problem and to settle it in such a way as to satisfy all
groups interested in the matter. [MRHK149] |
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• 86 B.E.
• A.H.
• March A.D. 1930
• A.M. |
The intended pilgrimage of Queen Marie of Romania to the Bahá'í Shrines is thwarted. [GBF49; GPBXVIII; PP114]
- For details of this episode see GBF49–50 and PP113–16.
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