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| 1888 (In the year) |
Jamál Effendi, accompanied by Hájí Faraju'lláh-i-Tafrishí, embarked on a long journey to the East visiting Burma, Java (Indonesia), Siam (Thailand), Singapore, Kashmir, Tibet, Yarqand, Khuqand in Chinese Turkistan, and Afghanistan. [EB123–4; PH22] |
Myanmar (Burma); Java; Indonesia; Siam (Thailand); Thailand; Singapore; Kashmir; India; Tibet; Yarqand; Khuqand; Chinese Turkistan; China; Afghanistan |
Jamal Effendi; Haji Farajullah-i-Tafrishi |
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| 1916 summer |
Mr Vasily Eroshenko, a young blind Russian, visited Thailand, the first Bahá'í to do so. |
Thailand |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1954 15 Feb |
Charles Duncan (a musician and composer) and Harry Clark, both Americans, arrived in Brunei from Kota Kinabalu (Jesselton) in Sabah, where they had been waiting for several weeks, and were named Knights of Bahá’u’lláh. [BW13:451; PH63]
Later he pioneered to Thailand where he learned the language. See Servants of the Glory page 19 |
Brunei; Thailand |
Knights of Bahaullah; Charles Duncan; Harry Clark |
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| 1964 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand was formed with its seat in Bangkok and having jurisdiction over the Bahá'ís of Laos. [BW14p99] |
Bangkok; Thailand; Laos |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1974 (In the year) |
Owing to difficulties within the Bahá’í community, the National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand was disbanded. |
Thailand |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1975 Ridván |
The first local spiritual assembly to be elected among the Meo tribes, Laotian refugees in northern Thailand, was formed. [BW16:262] |
Thailand |
Local Spiritual Assembly |
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| 1977 (In the year) |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand re-formed. |
Thailand |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1985 (In the year) |
A regional office of the Bahá’í International Community affiliated with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was established in Bangkok. [BW19:161–2] |
Bangkok; Thailand |
Bahai International Community; Social and economic development |
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| 1986 6 Aug |
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] |
Thailand |
Indo-Chinese Refugee Committee |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Bahá'í International Community was invited to participate in the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand because of its involvement in the work of the Task Force for Literacy under the aegis of UNESCO. [AWH75] |
Thailand |
Bahai International Community; Education; Literacy; UNESCO |
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| 1994 Feb 17 – 20 |
The first Bahá'í ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Forum was held in Bangkok. [BINS312:6] |
Bangkok; Thailand |
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from the Main Catalogue
- Jamál Effendi and the early history of the Bahá'í Faith in South Asia, by Moojan Momen, in Bahá'í Studies Review, 9 (1999). Includes maps on Jamal Effendi's journeys in India, and journeys in Southeast Asia. [about]
- Meta-Narrative of Peasant Religious Conversion, The: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community In Thailand, by Amanah Nurish, in En Arche: Indonesian Journal of Inter-Religious Studies, 4:1 (2015). A study of why the peasant peoples of Yasothon, Thailand have turned to the Bahá'í Faith instead of the more common Buddhism; how local political movements and resistance develop among the poor working-class in agricultural areas. [about]
- Ridván 1996 (Four Year Plan) - To the Followers of Bahá'u'lláh in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam: Bahá'í Era 153, by Universal House of Justice (1996). Country-specific portion of the annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world: East Asia. [about]
- Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, by Adrienne Morgan and Dempsey Morgan (2017). Memoirs of a black couple from the United States who lived and spread the Bahá’í Faith in across parts of east Asia and Africa in the 1950s-1980s. Text by Dempsey Morgan, poems by Adrienne Morgan. Link to document offsite. [about]
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