Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957
Author: Shoghi Effendi
Source: US Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971 edition
Pages: 175
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Purification of Haram-i-Aqdas

Announce to Hands and all National Assemblies that following the loss of the appeal to the Supreme Court, the Government expropriation order has been implemented, resulting in the complete evacuation of the remnant of Covenant-breakers and the transfer of all their belongings from the precincts of the Most Holy Shrine, and the purification, after six long decades, of the Haram-i-Aqdas from every trace of their contamination. Measures under way to effect transfer of title deeds of the evacuated property to the triumphant Bahá’í community.
—Shoghi

[Cablegram, September 6, 1957]

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