A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Houses of Worship

Bahá'í Houses of Worship - Continental

There are currently over 60 Bahá'í Houses of Worship in some stage of existance. Fourteen are built and open to the public, two are under construction and one has been destroyed. The remaining are planned for construction in the near future. The decisions for which and when others will be built rest with the Universal House of Justice.

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Continental Bahá'í Houses of Worship

Sequence Built / Type	Continent	Country	State / Province / Department	City	Construction Began	Groundbreaking / Laying of Cornerstone	Dedicated
03) Continental	Africa	Uganda		Kampala	1957 October 1	1958 January 26	1961 January 15
01) Continental	Asia	Russia	Turkistan	'Ishqábád	1902 November 28	1902 November 28	1908
07) Continental	Asia-Pacific	Samoa		Tiapapata	1980 September 1	1979 January 27	1984 September 1
04) Continental	Australia	Australia	New South Wales	Sydney (Ingleside)	1957 November 1	1958 March 22	1961 September 16
06) Continental	Central America	Panama		Panama City			1972 April 29-30
05) Continental	Europe	Germany		Hofheim-Langenhain	1960 December 1	1960 November 20	1964 July 4
08) Continental	Indian Sub-Continent	India	New Delhi	Bahapur	1984		1986 December 23
02) Continental	North America	United States of America	Illinois	Wilmette	1920 December 20	1912 May 1 by 'Abdu'l-Bahá	1953 May 2
09) Continental	South America	Chile		Santiago	2010 November 28	2010 November 28	2016 October 13

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Sources:

	1.	Bahaikipedia - House of Worship
	2.	Introduction to Green Acre Bahá'í School, by Anne Gordon Atkinson
	3.	Bahá'í World News Service - Plans to build new Houses of Worship announced
	4.	Bahá'í Faith, The: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Bahá'í Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963, Page 36
	5.	The Bahá'í World 1968-1973 pp.286. Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette

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