August 7, 2011

Varqa and his son Ruhu'llah, in prison before their martyrdom

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Varqa and his son Ruhu'llah
July 31, 2011

Rafieh Mansour -- patient handmaiden of God

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Rafieh Mansour In 1889, when Rafieh was three years old, her family had the joy of being invited by Baha'u'llah to move to the ...
July 24, 2011

Kanichi Yamamoto: the world's first Japanese believer

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Kanichi Yamamoto: the world's first Japanese believer (Baha'i News July 1977)
July 23, 2011

Howard Colby Ives - the outstanding promoter of the Faith

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Howard Colby Ives Mable and Howard Ives
July 17, 2011

Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts

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Jimmy Seals and Dash Crofts
July 16, 2011

May Bolles Maxwell and daughter Mary

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May Bolles Maxwell and daughter Mary May Bolles Maxwell was one of that first group of pilgrims from the West who, in 1898-99, visit...
July 10, 2011

Hand of the Cause Corinne True and her daughters

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Hand of the Cause Corinne True and her daughters at the time of the dedication of the House of Worship in Chicago on May 1, 1953. From le...
May 30, 2011

Hands of the Cause Adelbert Muhlschlegel and Hasan Balyuzi

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Adelbert Muhlschlegel and Hasan Balyuzi
May 28, 2011

Stem Salle - the first believer of Truk islands, 1973

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Stem Salle with his wife and children
May 26, 2011

Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga with members of his family

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Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga (second from left) with members of his family; to his left, his daughter, Florence, a student at Toror...
May 22, 2011

Mustafa Baghdadi

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Mustafa Baghdadi Mustafa Baghdadi lived for many years In Beirut, Syria. He was one of the earliest followers of the Báb and Bahá’u’l...
May 21, 2011

Martha Root - "Herald of the Kingdom"; “the foremost Hand raised by Bahá'u'lláh since 'Abdu'l-Bahá's passing”; “the first, finest fruit which the Formative Age of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh has as yet produced”; “that archetype of Bahá'í itinerant teachers”

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Martha Root Martha's unnumbered admirers throughout Bahá'í world lament with me the earthly extinction of her heroic life. Co...
May 3, 2011

Fujita Saichiro

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Fujita in Haifa, circa 1928  Fujita at Chicago Temple in 1971
April 30, 2011

Nettie Tobin & the "corner stone" for Chicago Temple

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Nettie Tobin kneeling by the stone which she carried as her contribution to the Chicago Temple in the very early days.  'Abdu'l-B...
April 27, 2011

Ruhiyyih Khanum with her little namesake

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Ruhiyyih Khanum with her little namesake, Cameroon 1972
April 24, 2011

Louise and John Bosch

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Louise and John Bosch  John David Bosch was born at Neu-St. Johann, Canton St. Gall, Switzerland, on August 1, 1855. His parents wer...
April 23, 2011

Badi - (Wonderful); Pride of Martyrs; Apostle of Baha’u’llah

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Aqa Buzurg of Kh urasan Badi (Wonderful); Pride of Martyrs; Apostle of Baha’u’llah. Born Aqa Buzurg-i-Ni sh apuri, the son of a devote...
April 22, 2011

Dr. Furutan - One of the Principals of Tarbiyat School, Secretary of Iranian National Spiritual Assembly for 24 years, One of the Nine Custodial Hands of the Cause

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Hand of the Cause Dr. 'Ali-Akbar Furutan In the face of sustained persecution, Dr. Furutan's family left their native city of...
April 20, 2011

Keith Ransom-Kehler with Zikrullah Khadem

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Keith Ransom-Kehler with Zikrullah Khadem (right) and Salim Nounou. Mrs. Ransom-Kehler is holding a picture of Shoghi Effendi, whom she ...
April 16, 2011

Morassa Rawhani - First woman to become a member of the Spiritual Assembly of Alexandria, Egypt

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Morassa (Yazdi) Rawhani Mrs. Morassa (Yazdi) Rawhani was born in 1887 and named Akkawiya (the one who belongs to 'Akka) by 'A...
April 14, 2011

Albert Hall - President of Bahai Temple Unity and Chairman of Annual Convention of the Baha’is of the United States and Canada – 1910 to 1914

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Albert Hall Albert Hall will ever be remembered for his services in the early development of the Bahai Temple Unity, the body entrust...
April 12, 2011

Agnes Alexander - First Baha’i to set foot on Hawaiian soil; first Baha’i to settle in Japan, and first Baha’i to teach the Faith in Korea

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Hand of the Cause Agnes Alexander Additional pictures are at: http://communitybaha.blogspot.com/2010/10/circa-1900-agnes-a...
April 9, 2011

Jamal Effendi - The spiritual father of India and Burma -- the first Baha'i teacher sent to India and Burma by Baha'u'llah in 1875

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Sulayman Khan Ilyas, Jamal Effendi  The man whom Providence had destined to become the spiritual father of the subcontinent of India...
April 4, 2011

Louis and Louise Gregory -- the first black-white marriage in the American Baha'i community

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Louis and Louise Gregory
March 21, 2011

Mary Fantom - First Hawaiian Baha'i

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Mary Fantom Mrs. Mary Fantom has the distinction of being the first Baha'i of Hawaiian blood. She was affectinately known as Aunt...