Atlas of New Zealand

New Zealand
New Zealand with administrative divisions shown.
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While the first mention of the Bahá'í Faith in New Zealand was in 1853 continuous contact began around 1904 when one individual after another came in contact with Bahá'ís and some of them published articles in print media in New Zealand as early as 1908. The first Bahá'í in the Antipodes was Dorothea Spinney who had just arrived from London in Auckland in 1912. Shortly thereafter there were two converts about 1913 - Robert Felkin who had met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London in 1911 and moved to New Zealand in 1912 and is considered a Bahá'í by 1914 and Margaret Stevenson who first heard of the religion in 1911 and by her own testimony was a Bahá'í in 1913. After ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote the Tablets of the Divine Plan which mentions New Zealand the community grew quickly so that the first Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was attempted in 1923 or 1924 and then succeeded in 1926. The Bahá'ís of New Zealand elected their first independent National Spiritual Assembly in 1957. By 1963 there were four Assemblies, and 18 localities with smaller groups of Bahá'ís. The 2006 census reports about 2800 Bahá'ís in some 45 local assemblies and about 20 smaller groups of Bahá'ís though the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 7000 Bahá'ís in 2005.

National Assembly: New Zealand

Media

A collection of media related to New Zealand Events (Conferences • Conventions (Nat'l) • Establishments • Holy days • Publications • Seasonal schools (Summer • Winter)) Maps • Buildings and structures • Bahá’í centres (Local • National) • Cities • Schools • Houses of Worship People (Children) • Spiritual Assemblies (Local • National) • Atlas

Notes and references

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