Atlas of New Zealand

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While the first mention of the Bahá'í Faith in New Zealand was in 1853[1] 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.[2] The first Bahá'í in the Antipodes was Dorothea Spinney who had just arrived from London in Auckland in 1912.[3] 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[4] and Margaret Stevenson who first heard of the religion in 1911 and by her own testimony was a Bahá'í in 1913.[5] After ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote the Tablets of the Divine Plan which mentions New Zealand[6] the community grew quickly so that the first Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was attempted in 1923[7] or 1924[8] and then succeeded in 1926. The Bahá'ís of New Zealand elected their first independent National Spiritual Assembly in 1957.[9] By 1963 there were four Assemblies, and 18 localities with smaller groups of Bahá'ís.[10] The 2006 census reports about 2800 Bahá'ís[11] in some 45 local assemblies and about 20 smaller groups of Bahá'ís[12] though the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 7000 Bahá'ís in 2005.[13]

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Notes

References

  1. ↑ Effendi, Shoghi (1997). Messages to the Antipodes:Communications from Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'í Communities of Australasia, Introduction, 14, Mona Vale: Bahá'í Publications Australia.
  2. ↑ Bain, Wilhemenia Sherriff (1908-12-08). "Behaïsm". Otago Witness. New Zealand: Antipodal Bahá'í Studies. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
  3. ↑ Template:Cite encyclopedia
  4. ↑ There isn't a definite date Felkin is considered a Baha'i except before 1914 - Arohanui, Introduction by Collis Featherstone.
  5. ↑ Template:Cite web
  6. ↑ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá [1916-17] (1991). Tablets of the Divine Plan, Paperback, 47-59, Wilmette, IL: Bahá'í Publishing Trust.
  7. ↑ Template:Cite web
  8. ↑ Effendi, Shoghi; J. E. Esslemont (1982). Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand, Appendix,??, Suva, Fiji Islands: Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Suva, Fiji Islands.
  9. ↑ Template:Cite web
  10. ↑ Template:Cite web
  11. ↑ Template:Cite journal
  12. ↑ Template:Cite web
  13. ↑ Template:Cite web

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