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INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT |
Bahá’ís have established residence in seventy-eight countries, fifty-six
of which are sovereign states. Bahá’í literature has been translated and
published in forty-one languages. Translations have been undertaken in twelve
additional languages. Thirty-one races are represented in the Bahá’í world
community. Five National Assemblies and sixty-one local Assemblies belonging
to ten countries are incorporated and legally empowered to hold property.
The Bahá’í international endowments held in the Holy Land are estimated
at a half million pounds sterling. National Bahá’í endowments in the
United States are estimated at one million, seven hundred thousand dollars.
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The area of land in the Jordan Valley dedicated to the Bahá’í Shrines
is over five hundred acres. The site purchased for future Bahá’í Temple of
Persia comprises three and a half million square meters. The cost of the
structure of the first Bahá’í Temple in the West has been one million, three
hundred thousand dollars.
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In every state and province of North America Bahá’í Assemblies are
functioning. In thirteen hundred localities of the United States and Canada
Bahá’ís reside. Bahá’í Centers have been established in every republic of
Latin America, fifteen of which possess Spiritual Assemblies. The Faith in
the Western Hemisphere now stretches from Anchorage, Alaska, to Magallanes,
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the world’s southernmost city. Sixty-two Centers have been established
in India, twenty-seven with Spiritual Assemblies.
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Bahá’í administrative headquarters have been founded in Ṭihrán, Delhi,
Cairo, Baghdád, Wilmette and Sydney. Bahá’í endowments in the Holy
Land and the United States have been exempted from taxes by the civil
authorities. Civil recognition has been extended to Bahá’í Assemblies in
five states of the United States to solemnize Bahá’í marriages.
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