Chronology: Date 1907-00

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date	event	tags	firsts
1907 (In the year) 190-	`Abdu'l-Bahá started to move His family to the house that He had designed and built in the German colony at the foot of Mount Carmel in Haifa. [BBD107; DH145] Laura Clifford Barney helped to purchase the land for the house and to pay for its construction. [DH145] See Uplifting Words for photos and a history of the house. Some members of the family occupied the house as early as February 1907, if not before. [DH145; GBF56]	`Abdu'l-Bahá, House of (Haifa); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Laura Clifford Barney; Purchases and exchanges; Architecture; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel
1907 (In the year) 190-	Six rooms of the Shrine of the Báb were completed. [GBF103] See BBD8 and DH103–4 for information on Mullá Abu-Tálib, the master mason from Bákú, Ádharbáyján, who worked on the Shrine. 'Abdu'l-Bahá named one of the exterior doors to the Shrine of the Báb after Ustad 'Ali Ashraf, named Báb-i-Ashraf. In years to come, one of the gates leading to the Shrine of 'Abdu'l-Bahá was named "Ali Ashraf Gate". Two doors, one facing north towards 'Akka and the other on the eastern side of the Shrine, were named for Ustad Aqa 'Ali-Ashraf and Ustad Aqa Bala, sons of Mulla Abu-Talib. These two brothers were master-masons who went on pilgrimage from their native town of Baku, Russia, and with 'Abdu'l-Bahá's permission remained for some time in the Holy Land. During this period, they devoted their efforts to the construction of the Shrine and offered financial contributions towards the project. Some members of the Ahmadpùr family had been in the presence of the beloved Master when the Shrine of the Báb had almost been completed. In their longing to have a share in that great and historic enterprise, they asked the Master if they could make a special carpet for the fioor and send it to Haifa. He accepted their request and gave instructions as to what design they should choose for the carpet. The Ahmadpùr family were those in whose silk factory the Báb's body had been kept after being taken from the edge of the moat outside the city of Tabriz. [BN No 403 October 1964 p1]	Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Mulla Abu-Talib; Ahmadpúr family; Haifa, Israel; Bandar Anzali, Iran; Azerbaijan
1907 (In the year) 190-	Lady Blomfield and her daughter Mary learned of the Faith at a reception in Paris. [CH1–2; ER95; SBR22; SEBW101, SCU17] For accounts of Lady Blomfield's life see ER88–97 and SEBW101–10. The first person of Irish birth to accept the Faith in the British Isles appears to have been Sara, Lady Blomfield (nee Ryan) in London in 1907. She had been born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1859. [Regional Council website]	Lady Sarah Louisa Blomfield; Mary Basil Hall (Mary Esther Blomfield, Parvine Khanum); Paris, France; France	The first person of Irish birth to accept the Faith in the British Isles
1907 (In the year) 190-	It was estimated that there were from 1,000 to 1,100 believers in North America by this date, with about 12 believers in Montreal and six Bahá'ís in other localities in Canada. [BFA2:230]	Statistics; United States (USA); Montreal, QC; Canada
1907 (In the year) 190-	Hájar, an elderly Bahá'í woman, was shot dead in Nayríz. [BW18:386]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Nayriz, Iran; Iran
1907 (In the year) 190-	Pritam Singh, an Assistant Master of Economics at Chiefs College in Lahore, accepted the Faith, the first Sikh to do so. [BFA2:269]	Pritam Singh; - Sikhism; - First believers by background; Lahore, India; Pakistan	First Sikh to accept Faith
1907 (In the year) 190-	The first Bahá'í fund (Šerkat-e ḵayrīya) was established in Tehran to financially support Bahá'í teachers, facilitate the education of Bahá'í children, provide sufficient care of Bahá'í orphans, the aged and handicapped, and be of assistance to students of higher education. [BAHAISM v. The Bahai Community in Iran by V. Rafati]	Funds; Tehran, Iran; Iran	first Baha'i fund to support education and support of children
1907 (In the year) 190-	The publication of A Call of Attention to the Behaists or Babists of America by August J Stenstrand. He was a member of the "Society of Behaists" founded by Ibrahim Kheiralla, and was voted out of that group in 1906 and became the only self-professed Azali in America. He published at least five of these booklets from 1907 to 1917. [Collinsp294, 12.125-12.127a]	August Stenstrand; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Chicago, IL; * Publications; Covenant-breaking
1907 (In the year) 190-	The publication of Tablets Containing Instructions 19p. It was translated by Ahmad Sohrab and Ali-Kuli Khan and was published in Washington by the Bahai Assembly. Described by 'Abdu'l-Bahá as a few Tablets revealed for believers in Persia; if they are translated and spread in the West it will not be without effect ... Print them and circulate them amongst the believers in all those parts. (paraphrased from intro) [Collins3.147]	* `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Washington, DC, USA; United States (USA)
1907 (In the year) 190-	Alma Knobloch, the sister of Pauline Hannen, settled in Stuttgart. [SYH13; BW9p642]	Alma Knobloch; Stuttgart, Germany; Germany
1907 (In the Year) 190-	Edward 'Saffa" Kinney and his wife Carrie "Vaffa" were in pilgrimage during this year. 'Abdu'l-Bahá later described them as being "Pillars of th Faith in the City of the Covenant" for their steadfastness in the Cause. [SYH45]	Pilgrimage; Edward Kinney; Carrie Kinney; - Bahá'í World Centre


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