Baháʼí Faith in Bahrain
religion of an area
The Baháʼí Faith in Bahrain begins with a precursor movement, the Shaykhís coming out of Bahrain into Iran. Abu'l-Qásim Faizi and wife lived in Bahrain in the 1940s. Around 1963 the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahrain was elected in the capital of Manama. In the 1980s, many anti-Baháʼí polemics were published in local newspapers of the Bahrain. Recent estimates count some 1,000 Baháʼís or 0.2% of the national population or a little more by Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 2,832 Baháʼís in 2010. According to the Bahraini government the combined percentage of Christians, Jews, Hindus and Baháʼís is 0.2%.
Early phase
The founder of the Shaykhí movement, Shaykh Ahmad, was born in 1753, in the region known as Al-Bahrain or Al-Ahsa, which is on the Arabian Peninsula near to modern Bahrain. Details of this are provided in an early Baháʼí publication, The Dawn-Breakers. Abu'l-Qásim Faizi and wife lived in Bahrain in the 1940s; they found one convert in the seven years of their stay. A documented community existed by 1949 The community acquired a center in Manama in 1954.
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