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1950 15 Dec
195-
The Guardian appealed directly to Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to recognize the interest of the Bahá'í community in the property known as Mazra'ih as a holy place. After a protracted struggle to obtain ownership of the property, then a Moslem religious endowment, he leased the site from the Department of Moslem and Druze affairs in the Ministry of Religions. [DH93, GBF137, PP290, CB331, MBW7, Bahá'í News, no. 244, June 1951, p. 4] House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazraih); David Ben-Gurion; Haifa, Israel; Mazraih, Iran; Akka, Israel; Israel
1950 Dec
195-
Jalál Nakhjavání arrived in Tanganyika, the first Bahá'í pioneer to the country. [BW18:79]

History of the Bahá'í Faith in Tanzania says that Claire Gung was the 1st pioneer of the Bahá'í Faith in the country. Her biography, Claire Gung: Mother of Africa p14 confirms that she disembarked the The Warwick Castle sometime in February, 1951.

Jalal Nakhjavani; Pioneers; Claire Gung; Tanganyika, Tanzania first Bahá’í pioneer to Tanganyika
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