From Tasmania to Thursday Island, from Sydney to Broome and in the Wingecarribee Shire members of the Australian Baha’i community are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of their religion.
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The great prophetic figure known as Baha’u’llah (“The Glory of God”) was born in Tehran, Persia, in 1817.
In 1920 the religion he founded, the Baha’i Faith, arrived in Australia via Hyde and Clara Dunn and there are now Baha’is in all parts of the country.
Born in England and later living in North America, Hyde and Clara Dunn pioneered to Australia in that year- Clara was in her 50s and Hyde in his late 60s.
Hyde Dunn travelled around the country as a representative for Nestlé.
Along the way he had many opportunities to speak about the Baha’i Faith to interested groups.
The bicentennial celebrations will be held throughout the year in Australian towns and cities as well as in rural areas, and around the world, culminating in festivities on October 21-22.
Here in Wingecarribee a celebration for invited guests will be held in Bowral on October 22.
An afternoon tea will be held at the East Bowral Community Centre.
The great vision of Baha’u’llah (1817-92) was of a world civilisation based on the principle of the oneness of humanity.
Baha’u’llah outlined the steps necessary to achieve an ordered progression into a just and peaceful world.
His faith, now established worldwide, teaches the equality of women and men, the abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty, the harmony of science and religion, and the establishment of an equal standard of human rights for all people.
Visit www.bahai.org.au www.bahaullah.org for more information.
