| date |
event |
locations |
tags |
see also |
| 1949 21 Jan |
Shoghi Effendi had a private interview with Prime Minister Ben Gurion of Israel. [GBF136; PP174–5, 289] |
Israel |
Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Ben Gurion; Prime Ministers; Prominent visitors |
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| 1954 26 Apr |
President of Israel Ben Zvi and his wife visit the Shrines on Mount Carmel, the first official visit paid by a head of a sovereign state to the Shrines of the Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. [GBF139–140; MBW68; PP2923] |
Haifa; Mount Carmel |
Ben Zvi; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Bab, Shrine of; Firsts, Other |
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| 1962 28 Jun |
President Tubman of Liberia visited the Shrine of the Báb.
This is the second official visit of a head of state (but the first foreign head of state) and is notable in that Liberia is the first black republic on the continent of Africa. [BW13:400]
See BW13:400 for picture. |
Haifa; Mount Carmel; Liberia |
Bab, Shrine of; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Firsts, Other |
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| 1980 2 May |
The Bahá’ís of India commemorated the centenary of the founding of the Bahá’í Faith in their country with a reception attended by about 400 guests, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [BW18:246–7]
See here for the story of Jamal Effendi. |
India |
Centenaries; Prominent visitors |
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| 1984 21 Oct |
His Excellency Chaim Herzog, President of the State of Israel, pays an official visit to the Bahá’í World Centre at the invitation of the Universal House of Justice. [BW19:377; VV88]
This is the first visit by a head of state to the Seat of the House of Justice. [VV88] |
Haifa; BWC; Israel |
Chaim Herzog; Presidents; Prominent visitors |
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| 1986 3 – 4 Aug |
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]
For picture see VV86. |
Haifa; BWC; Cook Islands |
Prominent visitors; Universal House of Justice |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, visited the Bahá'í World Centre. [BW94–5:83] |
Marshall Islands; Oceania; BWC |
Amata Kabua; Presidents; Prominent visitors; Islands |
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| 1992 (In the year) |
Prime Minister Hamilton Green of Guyana made a formal state visit to the temple in Wilmette. [Bahá'í Newsreel Vol. 3 number 2; VV133] |
Guyana; Wilmette; United States |
Prime Ministers; Hamilton Green; Mashriqul-Adhkar, Wilmette; Prominent visitors |
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| 1993 12 Jun |
The Honourable Sir Julius Chan, KBE, Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea consulted with the Universal House of Justice on the future role of his country as an emerging nation and on the destiny of the Pacific region. [BINS297:9; BW93–4:78]
For pictures see BINS297:9 and BW93–4:78 |
Papua New Guinea; Haifa; Pacific |
Julius Chan, Sir; Universal House of Justice; Prominent visitors |
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| 1994 Mar 24 |
The Dalai Lama visited the Bahá'í World Centre, the first time a head of a religion had visited the Shrine of the Báb. [BW93–4:78, CBN Vol 7 no 1 May/June 1994] |
World Centre; BWC |
Dalai Lama; Bab, Shrine of; Prominent visitors; Firsts, Other; Buddhism; Tibet; Interfaith dialogue |
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| 1994 Jun 13 |
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, visited the Bahá'í World Centre to view the Terraces Project. [BW94–5:77] |
Israel; Haifa; BWC |
Yitzzhak Rabin; Prime Ministers; Prominent visitors |
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| 1994 Jul 22 – 23 |
His Excellency France Albert René, President of the Republic of Seychelles, consulted with the Universal House of Justice. [BINS322:9; BW94–5:76–7] |
Seychelles |
Prominent visitors |
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| 2003 18 Mar |
The President of India, Abdul Kalam, visited the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, the first official visit there by an Indian Head of State since the Temple was opened in December 1986. [BWNS204] |
New Delhi; India |
Abdul Kalam; Mashriqul-Adhkar, Delhi; Lotus temple; Prominent visitors; Presidents; Firsts, Other; BWNS |
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| 2010 30 Apr |
The visit of the President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese, to the World Centre. [BWNS774] |
BWC; Ireland; Haifa |
Presidents; Prominent visitors; Mary McAleese; BWNS |
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| 2011 1 Dec |
The head of state of the Republic of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong, paid an official visit to the Bahá'í World Centre. [BWNS870] |
BWC; Palau |
Presidents; Prominent visitors; Johnson Toribiong; Islands; BWNS |
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