Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
The value of international Bahá’í endowments in the Holy Land and the
Jordan Valley is estimated at over six hundred thousand pounds. National
Bahá’í endowments on the North American continent are valued at over two
million dollars. The area of land dedicated to the Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár
in Persia is approximately four million square meters. The value of the
national Hazíratu’l-Quds in the capitals of India and Persia respectively
is six hundred thousand rupees and fifty thousand pounds. The area of land
dedicated to the first Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár in South America is ninety
thousand square meters. The number of pieces of Bahá’í literature sold and
distributed in the course of one year in North America is over eighty
thousand pieces. The record of the number of visitors to the
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár in America in one year is over seventeen thousand
and the total number of visitors since its erection is over one quarter of
a million. The number of states in the American Union formally recognizing
Bahá’í marriage certificates is now eight. The number of national
assemblies functioning in the Bahá’í world is raised to nine through the
formation of the first Canadian National Assembly, to be shortly
reinforced through the constitution of two additional assemblies in South
and Central America and the West Indies.
The second seven-year, the six-year, the four and one-half year, the
six-year, the three-year, the five-year and forty-five month plans
respectively launched by the American, British, Indian, Australasian,
Iráqí, Canadian, and Persian National Spiritual Assemblies, some
culminating at the first Centennial of the birth of Bahá’u’lláh’s mission,
others the Hundredth Anniversary of the Báb’s Martyrdom, are aiming at the
establishment of three national assemblies in Canada and Latin America,
the completion of the interior ornamentation of the Mother Temple of the
West, the formation of spiritual assemblies in ten sovereign states of the
European continent, the constitution of nineteen assemblies in the British
Isles, doubling the number of assemblies in India, Pakistan and Burma, the
reconstitution of the dissolved assemblies and the establishment of
ninety-five new centers in Persia, the conversion of groups in Bahrein,
the Ḥijáz and Af_gh_ánistán into assemblies, the formation of
administrative nuclei in the Arabian territories of Yemen, Oman, Hasa and
Kuweit; the formation of thirty-one groups and seven assemblies in
Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania; the multiplication of centers in the
provinces of ‘Iráq, including the district of Shattu’l-Arab; the
incorporation of the Canadian National Assembly; doubling the number of
assemblies and raising to one hundred the centers in the Dominion of
Canada; the constitution of nuclei in Newfoundland and Greenland and the
participation of Eskimos and Red Indians in the local institutions of the
Administrative Order.
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