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1986 24 Dec 198- |
The House of Worship in New Delhi, the Mother Temple of the Indian Subcontinent, was dedicated in the presence of Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum and more than 8,000 Bahá'ís from 114 countries. [AWH47; BINS161; BW19:102 BW20p732-733, VV92]
Specifics
Foundation Stone: 17 October 1977 (Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum) Construction Period: April 1980 - December 1986 Site Dedication:24 December 1986 (Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum placed a silver casket containing Dust from the Shrines of Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb into the crown of the Prayer Hall arch facing 'Akká) Architect/Project Manager: Fariburz Sahbá Seating: 1200 Dimensions:Inner buds are 34.3m high, the outer leaves are 15.4m wide and 22.5m high. Cost: $10m Dependencies: References: BW16p486-487, BW17p368-370, BW18p103-104, 571-584, BW19p559-568, BW20p731-753 |
* Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); - Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Mother Temples; * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Quick facts; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Lotus temple, New Delhi; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Dedications; Marble; Fariborz Sahba; - Architects; Boxes containing dust, earth or plaster; Gifts; Bahá'u'lláh, Shrine of (Bahjí); Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); - Basic timeline, Expanded; Margraf; New Delhi, India; India; Chiampo, Italy; Italy | |
1986 23 - 27 Dec 198- |
International Teaching Conference was held in New Delhi in conjunction with the opening of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár. It was attended by 8,000 Bahá'ís from 114 countries. [BW20p731-753] | Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Teaching; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Lotus temple, New Delhi; New Delhi, India; India | |
1986 20 Dec 198- |
The official opening of Radio Bahá'í Chile in Labranza, Commune of Temuco.
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Bahá'í Radio; Bahá'í-owned radio; Temuco, Chile; Chile | |
1986 Dec 198- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Mauritania and all ten local spiritual assemblies in the country were dissolved. | National Spiritual Assembly, dissolved; Local Spiritual Assembly, dissolved; Mauritania | |
1986 13 Nov 198- |
Zikrullah Khadem (Dhikru'lláh Khádem), Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Skokie, Illinois. (b.1904 in Tehran) [VV123; ZK151]
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Zikrullah Khadem; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; - Births and deaths; - In Memoriam; Hands of the Cause, Second Contingent; Skokie, IL; Illinois, USA; United States (USA) | |
1986 19 Oct 198- |
Lorraine Kahn of Pine Springs, Arizona, is elected a delegate to the United States National Convention, the first Navajo woman to serve in this capacity. [BINS161:19] | Lorraine Kahn; Native Americans; Conventions, National; Firsts, other; United States (USA) | first Navajo woman delegate national convention |
1986 6 Aug 198- |
The Indo-Chinese Refugee Committee of Thailand estimates that five to six thousand people are Bahá'ís in the refugee camps on the Thai border. [BINS158:17] | Indo-Chinese Refugee Committee; Thailand | |
1986 6 Aug 198- |
The Brazilian Society of Physicians for Peace is formed by Bahá'í physicians in Pôrto Alegre at a ceremony attended by 120 medical professionals. [BINS159:2–3] | Bahá'í associations; Conferences, Health; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Brazil | |
1986 3 – 4 Aug 198- |
The Honourable Sir Thomas David, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, at his request, consulted with the Universal House of Justice at the Bahá'í World Centre about world peace, 'the most concrete response to date by a political leader to the Peace Statement'. BINS157:1; VV88]
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Prominent visitors; Universal House of Justice; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre; Cook Islands | |
1986 18 – 24 Jul 198- |
The European Bahá'í Youth Movement is launched at the Bahá'í Youth School, Landegg Conference Centre, Switzerland. [BINS157:9–10; BINS158:10] | Youth; Landegg Academy, Switzerland; Landegg, Switzerland; Switzerland; - Europe | |
1986 Jul 198- |
Jack Malardy, 88-year-old tribal leader of the Karradjarrie people of Australia, and his wife Lilly become Bahá'ís in Lagrange, Australia. [BINS156:3; BINS179:1] | Jack Malardy; Lilly Malardy; Australia | |
1986 23 May 198- |
Fourteen State Bahá'í Councils were elected in India by members of local spiritual assemblies. [BW19:162; VV99–100]
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State Bahá'í Councils; Regional Bahá'í Councils; India | |
1986 28 Apr 198- |
In 2008, the Bahá'í International Community published the names of 221 Iranian Bahá'ís who had been murdered or executed in the three decades since the Islamic Revolution. (The Bahá'í Question: Cultural Cleansing in Iran) The youngest on this list was Payman Sobhani Ezabadi, a resident of Saravan in the southwestern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, who was only 15 at the time. This story from Iranwire, untold before, is based on his father's written memoirs. | Payman Ezabadi; * Persecution, Iran; Saravan, Iran | |
1986 - 1992 198- |
The Six Year Plan (1986-1992) was launched. [AWH40, 42–4; BBRSM159; VV91]
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Six Year Plan (1986-1992); - Teaching Plans; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 Ridván 198- |
The Seven Year Plan was successfully completed. (1979-1986) [BW19:23]
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Seven Year Plan (1979-1986); - Teaching Plans; - Restoration and renovation; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 Ridván 198- |
The heroic steadfastness of the Persian friends has been the mainspring of tremendous international attention focused on the Cause, eventually bringing it to the agenda of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and, together with world-wide publicity in all the media, accomplishing its emergence from the obscurity which characterized and sheltered the first period of its life.[Ridván Message] |
Emergence from obscurity; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 20 Apr 198- |
The world population of Bahá'ís was estimated to be 4,335,000. [BW19p67] | Statistics | |
1986 Apr 198- |
The first province-wide gathering of Bahá'í youth in Northern Ireland convenes. [BINS154:15] | Youth; Northern Ireland, UK | first province-wide gathering Bahá’í youth in Northern Ireland |
1986 13 Mar 198- |
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution asking its chairman to appoint a new special representative to report to the General Assembly in November 1986 on the human rights situation in Iran, including the situation of the Bahá'ís. [BINS153:12] | United Nations Commission on Human Rights; Iran | |
1986 9 Mar 198- |
The passing of Continental Board of Counsellor member Angus Welldon Cowan (b.12 September 1914 in Bishopton, Quebec) at his home in Invermere, BC. [BW19p703–70; BCNS]
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Angus Cowan; - In Memoriam; Bishopton, QC; Quebec, Canada; Invermere, BC; British Columbia, Canada | |
1986 5 Feb 198- |
The publication of Epochs of the Formative Age by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice which explained that the epochs of the Formative Age mark progressive stages in the evolution of the organic Bahá'í community and signal the maturation of its institutions. The timing of each epoch is designated by the Head of the Faith, and given the organic nature of evolutionary development, the transition from one epoch to another may not be abrupt, but may well occur over a period of time. [Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986 p710-716] | Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 5 Feb 198- |
The message from the Universal House of Justice addressed to all National Assemblies with the compilation entitled The Epochs of the Formative Age prepared by the Research Department. [Messages63-86p710-716] | Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Formative Age; - Compilations; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 31 Jan 198- |
The announcement of the inaugural broadcast of Radio Bahá'í Panama. [Mess63-86p710]
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Bahá'í Radio; Teaching institutes; Bahá'í-owned radio; Boca del Monte, Panama; Panama | |
1986 28 Jan 198- |
The death of NASA Astronaut Ronald Erwin McNair (b. 21 October, 1951 in Lake City, SC) when Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated nine miles above the Atlantic Ocean just 73 seconds after liftoff. Prior to this launch he had served 7 days, 23 minutes in space. He was buried in Rest Lawn Memorial Park in Lake City, South Carolina. [BlackPast.org]
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Ronald McNair; Space exploration; * Science; African Americans; - Famous Bahá'ís; Cape Canaveral, FL; Florida, USA; Lake City, SC; South Carolina, USA; United States (USA) | |
1986 21 Jan 198- |
The Islamic Research Academy at the Azhar University in Cairo published in a number of newspapers a lengthy opinion about the Bahá'í Faith in advance of the court cases of Bahá'ís due to be heard in February. [BW19:286]
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Persecution, Egypt; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Bahá'í International Community; Criticism and apologetics; Moshen Enayat; Egypt | |
1986 2 Jan 198- |
The Universal House of Justice ended the Counsellors' Conference at the Bahá'í World Centre by announcing in a letter that the Bahá'í world has entered the fourth epoch in the Formative Age of the Cause. [AWH39–42; BBD79, 85; BW19:29; VV91]
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Formative Age; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs; Holy Years; Six Year Plan (1986-1992); Conferences, Counsellors; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | |
1986 1 Jan 198- |
The publication of the compilation entitled "Women" by the Universal House of Justice. [Messages63-86p704, Compilation of CompilationsVol 2 p355]
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Women; Peace; - Compilations; * Publications; Universal House of Justice, Membership on | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
Iran's hugely unsuccessful attempt to convince the international community that Bahá'ís were indeed spies was probably one of the reasons that convinced Iranian officials to review Iran's contemporary history. The aim of this review was in no way to reconsider age-old beliefs and assumptions, but to generate so-called "objective" facts and data which would ultimately serve to justify those assumptions. It was in light of this conviction that, the Institute for Cultural Research and Studies was founded "with a mandate to maintain, organize and catalogue valuable historical documents acquired during and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. In 1996, it was replaced by the Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies (IICHS), a professional research centre devoted to the study of contemporary Iranian history. Its objective is to undertake various research projects regarding social, political, economic and cultural aspects of post-eighteenth-century Iran, using its collection of primary sources." Another such organization, the Political Studies and Research Institute, was founded in 1988. [Iran Press Watch 1407; the institute's website] |
Conspiracy theories; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The founding of the Ruaha Secondary School in southwestern rural Tanzania near Iringa, about 500 km from Dar-es-salaam. The school was operated under the auspices of the National Spiritual Assembly. [The Mona Project (information on the Iringa School no longer available on this web site), One Country]
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- Bahá'í inspired schools; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Mona Foundation; Tanzania; Iringa, Tanzania; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran continued throughout the year. [BW19:177–226]
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* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Bahá'í International Community; Human rights; Iran | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The Bahá'í Association for Arts (BAFA) was formed with its base in the Netherlands. | Bahá'í Association for Arts (BAFA); Bahá'í associations; * Arts and crafts; Netherlands | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The first local spiritual assembly of San Salvador Island, mentioned in the Tablets of the Divine Plan as Watling Island, was formed. | Local Spiritual Assembly; San Salvador Island | first Local Spiritual Assembly San Salvador Island |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The Sri Lanka post office issued a commemorative postage stamp featuring the Bahá'í-sponsored World Religion Day. [BINS176:4] | World Religion Day; Stamps (philately); Sri Lanka | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
Community-based Bahá'í health care programmes were launched in Kenya, Uganda and Swaziland, spearheaded by Dr Ethel Martens of Canada. | Ethel Martens; Kenya; Uganda; Swaziland | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
Hundreds of members of the Aeta tribe in Tarlac and Pampanga, Philippines, became Bahá'ís. [BINS158:13] | - First believers by background; Philippines | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, a prominent diplomat, and professor of law from El Salvador served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran from 1986 to 1995. He visited Iran three times between 1990 and 1992, but after his third visit, he was barred from visiting Iran.
[Wikipedia]
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United Nations; Galindo Pohl; Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran; Bahá'í International Community; New York City, NY | |
1986 (In the year) 198- |
The Bayán Association started in Honduras in the mid-1980s by two Bahá'í families - the Smiths and the Sabripours. [Website]
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- Social and Economic Development Organizations; Bayan Association; La Ceiba, Honduras; Honduras | |
1986 -2001 198- |
The end of the Third Epoch and the beginning of The Fourth Epoch of the Formative Age. [Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 5 February 1986; Mess63-86 p710-716]
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Formative Age; Cycles, Eras, Ages and Epochs |
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