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| 1937 Ridván |
The First Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) was launched in North America. [BBD180; BBRSM158; BW7:17–18; MA9, 11-12, 87]
The Guardian's Seven Year Plan for the American Bahá'ís
For the role of individuals, local spiritual assemblies and the National Spiritual Assembly see MA11–12.
The Plan called for:
- the completion of the exterior of the Wilmette Temple. BW7:17–18; PP385]
- the establishment of a local spiritual assembly in each state and province of the United States and Canada. [PP385]
- the establishment of a centre in each of the republics of Latin America. [PP385]
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United States; Canada |
Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1937-1944); Teaching Plans; Teaching Plans, National; LSA; Mashriqul-Adhkar, Wilmette |
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| 1946 Ridván |
The Second Seven Year Plan of the United States and Canada (1946-1953) was launched. [BBR180; BBRSM158, 185; MA87-89, MA89]
For details of the plan see BW16:81–2.
This marked the end of the First Epoch and the beginning of the Second Epoch of the Formative Age. [CB316; CF5–6]
The Second Epoch was marked by the global spread of the Faith and concluded with the election of the Universal House of Justice. |
United States; Canada |
Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1946-1953); Teaching Plans; Teaching Plans, National; Formative Age; Ages and Epochs |
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| 1953. 20 Apr |
The Second Seven Year Plan ended with 2,425 localities, 611 local spiritual assemblies, 100 countries, islands and dependencies opened to the Faith. There were 12 national assemblies to this date; [UC43]
From 1921 to this time the Faith had expanded to 128 countries and territories, 15 during the time of Baha'u'llah, 20 during the time of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and an additional 58 under the stewardship of the Guardian. [Patheos website] |
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Teaching Plans; Seven Year Plan, US and CA (1946-1953); Statistics |
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| 1979 21 Mar |
The Universal House of Justice outlined the broad goals of the Seven Year Plan to he launched at Ridván 1979. [BW18:81–5] |
BWC |
Seven Year Plan (1979-1986); Teaching Plans |
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| 1979 Ridván |
The Seven Year Plan was launched. (1979-1986) [BBD181; BBRSM159; BW17:71]
See Bahá’í News No 676 July 1987 p2-7 for the achievements of the Seven Year Plan.
See the publication The Seven Year Plan 1979-1986: Statistical Report Ridván 1983. |
BWC |
Seven Year Plan (1979-1986); Teaching Plans |
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| 1986 Ridván |
The Seven Year Plan was successfully completed. (1979-1986) [BW19:23]- For a graph showing the growth of the Bahá’í Faith in this period see BW19:23.
- For statistics on the Bahá’í Faith at this date see BINS155:13 and BW19:61–98, 112–46.
- A series of further plans from 1964 to 1986, The Nine Year Plan (1964-19730), The Five Year Plan (1974-1979), and the Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) carried forward the process of establishing the Bahá'í Faith in every country and major territory of the world, such that, once it became possible to spread the Baha'i Faith in the former communist countries in the 1990s, this process was more or less complete. [Patheos website]
- the restoration and opening to pilgrimage of the southern wing of the House of 'Abdu'llah Pasha;
- the completion and occupation of the Seat of the Universal House of Justice;
- the approval of detailed plans for the remaining edifices around the Arc;
- the expansion of the membership and responsibilities of the International Teaching Centre and the Continental Boards of Counsellors;
- the establishment of the offices of Social and Economic Development, and of Public Information;
- the dedication of the Mother Temple of the Pacific, and dramatic progress with the building of the Temple in India;
- the expansion of the teaching work throughout the world, resulting in the formation of twenty-three new National Spiritual Assemblies, nearly 8,000 new Local Spiritual Assemblies, the opening of more than 16,000 new localities and representation within the Baha'i community of 300 new tribes;
- the issuing of 2,196 new publications, 898 of which are editions of the Holy Text and the enrichment of Baha'i literature by productions in 114 new languages; the initiation of 737 new social and economic development projects;
- the addition of three radio stations, with three more soon to be inaugurated--
these stand out as conspicuous achievements in a Plan which will be remembered as having set the seal on the third epoch of the Formative Age. [Ridván Message 1986]
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Seven Year Plan (1979-1986); Teaching Plans |
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| 1937 May |
The First Seven Year Plan was launched in North America. [BBD180; BBRSM158; BW7:17–18; MA9]
For the role of individuals, local spiritual assemblies and the National Spiritual Assembly see MA11–12.
The Plan called for:
- the completion of the exterior of the Wilmette Temple. BW7:17–18; PP385]
- the establishment of a local spiritual assembly in each state and province of the United States and Canada. [PP385]
- the establishment of a centre in each of the republics of Latin America. [PP385]
At this time there were 2 local spiritual assemblies and eighteen localities. [OBCC307] |
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First Seven Year Plan |
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| 1944 Ridván |
Completion of the Seven-Year Plan with 9 spiritual assemblies and 39 localities. (OBCC308] |
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First Seven Year Plan; Statistics |
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| 1946 Ridván |
The Second Seven Year Plan of the United States and Canada (1946-1953) was launched. [BBR180; BBRSM158, 185; MA87-89, MA89]
This marked the beginning of the second epoch of the Formative Age. [CB316; CF5–6]
For details of the plan see BW16:81–2. |
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Seven Year Plan; Teaching Plans |
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| 1953 (Ridván) |
The close of the Second Seven Year Plan that had been pursued by the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada 1946-1953. Worldwide there were 2,425 localities, 611 Local Spiritual Assemblies, 100 countries,island and dependencies open to the Faith and 12 National Spiritual Assemblies formed. [UC43]
Thirty local Spiritual assemblies were formed in Canada. [CBN No 76 May 1956 p6]
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Second Seven Year Plan; Statistics |
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from the main catalogue
- Achievements of the Seven Year Plan, 1979-1986, by Ahang Rabbani, in Bahá'í News, 12:676 (1987). Construction progress at the Bahá'í World Centre; expansion of the BIC; international conferences; formations of Local and National Assemblies; teaching initiatives; publications and proclamations. [about]
- Bahá'í World, The: Volume 18 (1979-1983), in Bahá'í World (1986). Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith. [about]
- Guardian's Seven Year Plan for the American Bahá'ís: 1946-1953, by Shoghi Effendi (1946). Teaching goals, institutional objectives, financial statistics, and other information from the Guardian pertaining to the American community. [about]
- Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age, by Universal House of Justice (1996). [about]
- Poetry on the Seven Year Plan: 1937-1944: Pioneering Over Four Epochs Section VIII: Poetry, by Ron Price, in Pioneering Over Four Epochs: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, Section VIII: Poetry (2006). The poetry in this section has a wide range of relationships with the first Bahá'í teaching Plan launched in 1937. I was born in the summer of 1944,when Shoghi Effendi celebrated the completion of that Plan with the publication in August of God Passes By. [about]
- Ridvan 1979 (Naw-Rúz): Bahá'í Era 136, by Universal House of Justice (1979). Annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world, on the launching of the Seven Year Plan and elucidation of the Seven Year Plan goals. [about]
- Three Teaching Methods Used During North America's First Seven-Year Plan, by Roger M. Dahl, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 5:3 (1993). Teaching methods used by American Bahá’ís to spread the Faith; firesides and teaching campaigns evolved during the 1930s; pioneer settlements were not used systematically until the Seven-Year Plan; difficulties caused by the race question in the South. [about]
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