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NATIONAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY
The National Spiritual Assembly is pleased to announce that Dr Shirin Tahzib has been elected a member of the National Assembly in the recent by-election to replace Mrs Carolyn Wade, who has been invited to serve at the Bahá’í World Centre. The by-election required two ballots, since the first ballot was tied. Dr Tahzib received 7 votes in the first ballot and 46 votes in the second (in which voting was only between the two tied people).
The National Spiritual Assembly is very grateful to Carolyn for her years of service, both as a Member and Treasurer.
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bio@bahai.org.ukUK Bahá’í Heritage Website
The Day of the Covenant 1999 saw the end of the UK Bahá’í Centenary. As part of that nineteen months long celebration of the progress and accomplishments of the Bahá’í community in the United Kingdom a Website was developed which brought together a unique range of documents and pictures, some new, some historic, both general and related to the United Kingdom.
With the end of the Centenary this Website has served its purpose but to ensure that the resources continue to be available to Bahá’ís and to the general public a new site has been established, one that will save the most relevant of the previously-published materials and will build on them.
This is the UK Bahá’í Heritage Website, and it can be visited at:
www.iol.ie/~isp/heritage/It is one of a range of sites maintained for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom by its Bahá’í Information Office. A full listing can be seen on the BIO home page at:
www.iol.ie/~ispWeb of Faith - Ideas
What should a local Bahá’í Website contain? Some communities have asked whether there is a standard form to follow. There is not, but here are some ideas.
It is important to keep a balance between local and general information. You need not put in a lot about the Faith as such; better to give some basic material and make sure there is a link to the official Bahá’í World site at
www.bahai.org and say something about your own community, what it is like (e.g. ethnic mix of members) and what sort of activities it does. It is not necessary to have a calendar of events, which would need regular updating and may not be suitable for the Web.As well as including this information about the Faith and the local community the site should give some information about the area itself. You can write this yourself or obtain something from the local council or tourist office, some of whom can even provide Web-ready pictures. They will be pleased to know you are putting the area on the world (electronic) map. You could also check if they have a Website you can put in a link for.
There are as many ways of doing Websites as there are sites, and one good way to get ideas for your own is to visit others. If you go to the National Spiritual Assembly’s Website at:
www.bahai.org.uk you will find links to many local Bahá’í sites in the country - a great source of ideas.And if you find the idea of getting on to the Web daunting, do not worry, the information sheets available on request from BIO assume no prior knowledge and start at the basic level to help you in understanding it and developing your site.