The Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project

has the goal of producing a reliable, comprehensive, current, and easy-to-use encyclopedic reference work covering a wide range of Bahá’í subjects.

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While work on a Bahá’í Encyclopedia continues, we offer a variety of articles on topics related to the Bahá’í Faith.

The Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project is preparing a wide range of articles for eventual publication in the Bahá’í Encyclopedia. Meanwhile, we are delighted to make available an interim selection of entries. The collection will expand to include more articles from more subject categories.
 

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28 January 1958

A six-day Intercontinental Conference held in Kampala, Uganda, concluded. The first in a series of conferences Shoghi Effendi called before his passing, it drew 950 Bahá’ís from thirty-eight countries. Shoghi Effendi's appointed representative to the conference was his wife, Hand of the Cause Amatu’l-Bahá Rúhiyyih Khánum. The fourth day of the Kampala Conference saw the laying of the foundation stone of the first House of Worship (Mashriqu’l-Adhkár) of the African continent.

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Ransom-Kehler, Keith Bean

American Bahá’í lecturer and world traveler; designated by Shoghi Effendi as the first American Bahá’í martyr and, posthumously, a Hand of the Cause of God, the first woman to be so named.

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Administration, Bahá'í

International system, originating in Bahá’í scripture, that governs the affairs of the Bahá’í Faith, which has no clergy and no professional learned class; a framework based on elected councils that hold legislative, executive, and judicial authority and on appointed individuals whose role is to protect, advise, and influence the Bahá’í community; the embryonic form of the future world order envisioned by Bahá’u’lláh.

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