19-day Feast – Glory
19-day feasts are administrative meetings where Local Spiritual Assemblies and their communities pray, consult and celebrate together.
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Riḍván
The garden of Riḍván (Paradise) was where, in 1863, Bahá’u’lláh declared to his followers that he was the Promised One of all ages. The 12 day festival celebrates this momentous event.
1st day
Work should be suspended.
19-day Feast – Beauty
19-day feasts are administrative meetings where Local Spiritual Assemblies and their communities pray, consult and celebrate together.
9th day
Work should be suspended.
12th day
Work should be suspended.
19-day Feast – Grandeur
19-day feasts are administrative meetings where Local Spiritual Assemblies and their communities pray, consult and celebrate together.
Declaration of the Báb, 1844
At the age of 25, Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad claimed to be a messenger of God. He took the title Báb (Gate), and in his book the Bayán (Explanation), he taught that he was the Forer-runner for 'him whom God shall make manifest', who would be the Promised One of all ages.
Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh, 1892
After forty years of imprisonment and exile, Bahá’u’lláh passed away peacefully at the age of 74, at Bahji, where he had been allowed to live outside the prison city of Akka for some years, though still officially being a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire. He is interred there. At Bahji, his shrine, surrounded by a […]
19-day Feast – Light
19-day feasts are administrative meetings where Local Spiritual Assemblies and their communities pray, consult and celebrate together.