June 28, 2012

Dorothy Baker -- Hand of the Cause

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Dorothy Baker and family Dorothy Baker with daughter Louise Baker Matthias  Born in Newark, New Jersey, 21 December 1898, Doroth...
June 20, 2012

Dr. Arastu Hakim

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Dr. Arastu Hakim Dr. Arastu Khan Hakim belonged to the third generation of Baha'is. His grandfather, Hakim Masih was court doctor...
June 13, 2012

Vaeino Rissanen -- the first in Finland to become a Baha'i

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Vaeino Rissanen (1909-1973) He was the first in Finland to become a Baha'i in 1938 by Josephine Kruka, the "Mother of Finlan...
May 24, 2012

Leonora Holsapple Armstrong -- “mother of the Bahá'ís of Brazil”

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Leonora Holsapple Armstrong -- “mother of the Bahá'ís of Brazil”  (The Universal  House of Justice, message dated January 1977; ‘Me...
May 10, 2012

Marion Jack -- an "immortal heroine", a "shining example to present and future generations"

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Marion Jack (1866-1954) Her courageous exploits in service to the Baha'i Faith inspired Shoghi Effendi to describe her as an ...
May 5, 2012

Rufino Gualavisi

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Rufino Gualavisi Rufino Gualavisi Farinango, a renowned indigenous Baha’i teacher, died March 23, 1990 in Otavalo, Ecuador. Mr. Guala...
April 25, 2012

Robert Hayden

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Robert Hayden Robert Hayden, a native of Detroit, was a world-renowned poet and the first black to be named consultant in poetry to t...
April 10, 2012

Patricia Locke

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Patricia Locke (right) and a young Baha'i woman from Pasto Grande, Bolivia, 1989.
April 4, 2012

Muhammad Arbab -- a Baha'i courier in early days of the Faith

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Muhammad Arbab Muhammad Arbab was born in Kashan, Persia, a place which was noted for the narrow-mindedness and fanaticism of its in...
April 1, 2012

Arthur Dodge -- a Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Baha

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Arthur and Elizabeth Dodge
March 25, 2012

Elizabeth Stewart -- Baha'i American nurse resident in Tihran, Persia, for many years

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Elizabeth Stewart  Elizabeth first heard of the Baha'i Movement in 1899 from her aunt M Isabella D. Brittingham, a Baha'i teach...
March 20, 2012

Lydia Zamenhof

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Lydia Zamenhof, youngest daughter of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, creator of the Esperanto language
March 15, 2012

Dizzy Gillespie

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Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie shows his great pleasure during a tribute September 16, 1985, by the Baha'is of Los Angeles honoring h...
March 10, 2012

Ruya Ishraghi and parents -- three Baha'i martyrs

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Twenty-two-year old university student Ruya Ishraghi (right) with her father, Enayatu'llah Ishraghi, a retired oil company executive,...
March 1, 2012

Eskil Ljungberg, a Knight of Baha'u'llah

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Eskil Ljungberg, a Knight of Baha'u'llah in the Faroe Islands  (Baha'i News, February 1985)
February 25, 2012

G.G. Paul - first translator of Baha'i Writings into Maori

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G.G. Paul, first translator of Baha'i Writings into Maori  (The Baha'i World 1932-1934)
February 18, 2012

Florence Evelyn Schopflocher

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Florence Evelyn Schopflocher She undertook travel teaching trips to Far East in 1920's. Landing in Bengazi, Africa, in the Li...
February 14, 2012

Hands of the Cause of God 'Ali-Akbar Furutan and John Robarts

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Hands of th Cause of God 'Ali-Akbar Furutan (left) and John Robarts embrace before addressing the International Youth Conference in C...
February 8, 2012

Pauline and Joseph Hannen

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Pauline and Joseph Hannen, early Baha'is of Washington, D.C. They natured Louis Gregory's interest in the Baha'i Faith.
February 4, 2012

Mirza Abu'l-Fadl -- an Apostle of Baha’u’llah

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Mirza Abu'l-Fadl
February 1, 2012

Dr. Susan Moody --Amatu’l-A’la (The Handmaid of the Most High), who “forged first link in (the) chain uniting (the) spiritual destinies” of Persia and the American Baha’i Community

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Dr. Susan I. Moody Cable from Shoghi Effendi on October 31, 1934: Passing dearly beloved Susan Moody deprives Baha’i world (of th...
January 27, 2012

Zia and Zinat Baghdadi

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Dr. Zia Baghdadi with his newly wed wife Zinat
January 25, 2012

Juliet Thompson and May Maxwell

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Juliet Thompson(left) and May Maxwell
January 22, 2012

Antonio Cruz, first Baha'i of the Totonaco tribe in Veracruz, Mexica

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Antonio Cruz, first Baha'i of the Totonaco tribe in Veracruz, Mexica (wearing traditional dress)  (The Baha'i World 1979-1083) ...
December 31, 2011

Louis Bourgeois -- famous architect of the Mother Temple of the West

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Louis Bourgeois
December 29, 2011

Effie Baker

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Effie Baker , a Melbourne Baha'i who traveled through Australia and New Zealand in 1924 with Martha Root. A message from the Guar...
December 28, 2011

Hidayatu'llah Dihqani -- a Baha'i martyr

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Hidayatu'llah Dihqani, executed in Shiraz, Iran, on March 17, 1981
December 19, 2011

Dr. John Esslemont, Hand of the Cause of God

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Dr. John Esslemont
December 11, 2011

Siyyid Mustafa Rumi, Hand of the Cause of God

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Siyyid Mustafa Rumi Siyyid Mustafa Rumi of Burma, named by the Guardian as one of the Hands of the Cause of Baha’u’llah, contributed ...
December 10, 2011

Lua Getsinger -- “The immortal Lua, mother-teacher of the American Bahá'í Community, herald of the dawn of the Day of the Covenant …” (Shoghi Effendi, Messages to America), a Disciple of 'Abdu'l-Baha

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Lua(Louisa) Moore Getsinger Lua, studio portrait taken in the blue costume she had made for the numerous occasions when she was req...