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1898 21 Dec | Birth of Dorothy Beecher Baker, Hand of the Cause of God. | Dorothy Baker; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths | |
1898 c. 20 Dec | The second group of Western pilgrims arrived in `Akká, and stayed three days before returning to Cairo to resume their plan for a six-week trip up the Nile which began soon after New Year's Day. [BFA1:145]
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Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Phoebe Hearst; Amalie Bachrodt; Thornburg, Mrs; Robert Turner; Akka, Israel | |
1898 10 Dec | The first Western pilgrims arrived in `Akká. [AB68; BBD13; BBRXXX; DH214; GPB257; SCU13; Bahá'í Teachings]
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Pilgrims; Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper; Robert Turner; First believers by background; Edward Getsinger; Lua Getsinger; Anton Haddad; Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Most Holy Book); House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Voice recordings of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); Akka, Israel; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt | First Western pilgrims; first group of first Western pilgrims; the first Tablet addressed to a North American believer; first member of black race to become Bahá'í |
1898 13 Nov | `Abdu'l-Bahá commemorated Kheiralla's arrival by ending the period of mourning for Bahá'u'lláh and by opening His Tomb to pilgrims for the first time. [BFA1:142–3; SBBH2:112] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Firsts, other; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of; Bahá'u'lláh, Ascension of; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Bahji, Israel | First time Tomb of Bahá'u'lláh opened to pilgrims |
1898 11 Nov | Kheiralla arrived in `Akká. [BFA1:XXVIII, 141]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Akka, Israel | |
1898 (Before 10 Dec) | During this period, `Abdu'l-Bahá issued instructions that, under no circumstances, was the Cause of God to be proclaimed or propagated in Egypt. The pilgrims who came through Port Said on a monthly basis were told when they arrived not to teach the Cause and, if they were asked about the Faith, not to offer a response. Ibrahim Effendi, who served in the Egyptian Custom Office as an inspector, noticed the coming and going of pilgrims from Persia and pressed for an explanation. One of the pilgrims, a renowned Bahá'í teacher from a Zoroastrian background named Jinab-i-Nush, unaware of the injunction, began to teach him. Mirza Áqá reported the incident to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and He welcomed the new believer with a Tablet. Ibrahim Effendi became an intrepid teacher of the Faith. | Jinab-i-Nush; Ibrahim Effendi; Port Said, Egypt; Egypt | first first native believer of Port Said. |
1898 Oct | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visited Haifa where the Templer colony numbered about 700 souls. His ship docked at what is now Ben Gurion Avenue. (The modern port built during the British Mandate period reclaimed much land altering the shoreline of Haifa beyond recognition and depriving the German colony of direct access to the sea. The Kaiser's visit was the apex of the history of the colony and would be commemorated with a stone marker that today sits just above the entrance at the top of the Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb.) He, however, chose not to go to Akka where 'Abdu'l-Bahá lived and He did not go to see the Kaiser because he "was proud He was the embodiment of pride." [VAB8; LWS10, 288n20] | Templer Society (German Templer colony); Kaiser Wilhelm II; Haifa, Israel | |
1898 22 Sep | The first Western pilgrims departed for `Akká, travelling via New York and Paris. [BFA1:XXVIII, 140–1, 230]
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Pilgrimage; First pilgrims; Pilgrims; Phoebe Hearst; Lua Getsinger; Edward Getsinger; Robert Turner; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA; USA | First Western pilgrims |
1898 (Autumn) | Eighteen people became Bahá'ís in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the visit of Kheiralla in the autumn of 1897. [BFA1:XXVIII]
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Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Kenosha, WI; Wisconsin, USA | |
1898 20 Aug | Jamál Effendi passed away in `Akká. [EB128; Momen-Jamal Effendi]
Note: Balyuzi gives the date of August 20th with giving a source. Momen says that Jamál Effendi lived out the last days in Akka. He died on 9 November 1898. He was buried in the Akka cemetery near the grave of Mírzá Músá, the brother of Bahá'u'lláh. 'Abdu'l-Bahá wrote a tablet of visitation for him and instructed that on his grave be written the following words: Verily, Jamál ad-Dín, a traveller famous in every clime, the spreader of the fragrance of the love of God, has now become a traveller in those realms of God which are hidden from the eyes of the people of realm of veils. 1316 AH |
Jamal Effendi; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Akka, Israel | |
1898 Jul or Aug | Phoebe Hearst became a Bahá'í in California through the efforts of Lua and Edward Getsinger. [BFA1:XXVIII 139; LDNW14-15]
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Phoebe Hearst; Lua Getsinger; Edward Getsinger; California, USA; USA | |
1898 1 Jun | Áqá Ghulám-Husayn-i-Banádakí was killed by a mob in Yazd after refusing to deny his faith. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Mobs; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Yazd, Iran; Iran | |
1898 Jun | In New York City, 141 people became Bahá'ís in the five months since Kheiralla's arrival. [BFA1:XXVIII, 125] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA; USA | |
1898 Apr | Nine Bahá'ís attending a Ridván meeting were arrested, beaten and imprisoned in Hamadán. [BW18:384] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Hamadán, Iran; Iran | |
1898 9 Feb | Hájí Muhammad-i-Turk was shot, beaten and then burned to death in a main street in Mashhad by four religious students. [BBRXXX, 406; BW18:384]
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Hájí Muhammad-i-Turk; Mashhad, Iran | |
1898 Feb | Kheiralla arrived in New York and began classes on the Bahá'í Faith. [BFA1:XXVIII, 116] | Ibrahim George Kheiralla; New York, USA | |
1898 (In the year) | Several Bahá'ís were arrested and imprisoned in Qazvín. [BW18:384] Hájí Muhammad was set upon and killed in Hisár, Khurásán. BW18:384] |
Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Qazvin, Iran; Hisar, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | |
1898 (In the year) | The Tarbíyat School for boys was established in Tihrán by the Bahá'ís. [BBD221] | Tarbiyat School, Tihran; - Bahá'í inspired schools; Social and economic development; Tehran, Iran; Iran | Founding of the first Tarbíyat School for boys |
1898 (In the year) | The first anti-Bahá'í polemical tracts were published by Christian missionaries in Iran. [SBB111:69] | Criticism and apologetics; Firsts, other; Iran | First anti-Bahá'í polemics by missionaries in Iran |
1898 (In the year) | `Abdu'l-Bahá instructed that the remains of the Báb be brought from their hiding place in Tihrán to the Holy Land. [BBD209]
In the 48 years since His martyrdom the Remains of the Báb had been secreted from a silk factory in Tabriz to Ṭihrán, Iṣfáhán, Kirmansháh, Baghdád, Damascus, Beirut and finally to 'Akká and then to the Mountain of God. [CoF54] He insisted that the utmost secrecy be observed. "The dangers inherent in conserving such s precious Trust were enhanced tenfold with the defection of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's brothers….Spies in the employ of these disloyal members of Bahá'u'lláh's own family could be found in the telegraph offices and ports throughout the region." [LWS147] |
Báb, Remains of; Báb, Shrine of; Tehran, Iran; Iran |
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