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Bahá'í Faith
Bahaism
1863 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · India, Iran, US, Africa, Latin America; present in nearly every country
VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1844 CE The Báb declares his mission in Shiraz; the Bábí movement spreads rapidly and is violently suppressed, with perhaps 20,000 killed.
- 1850 CE The Báb executed by firing squad in Tabriz at 30.
- 1852 CE Bahá'u'lláh imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál, the Black Pit, in Tehran, where he reports his first intimation of his mission.
- <strong>1863 CE</strong> He declares himself in the garden of Riḍván outside Baghdad.
- 1868–1892 CE Exiled by the Ottomans to the prison city of Acre, where he writes the bulk of his work and dies in 1892.
- 1892–1921 CE 'Abdu'l-Bahá leads the faith and travels to Europe and North America in 1911–13.
- 1921–1957 CE Shoghi Effendi builds the administrative order.
- 1963 CE The Universal House of Justice first elected.
- <strong>1979–present</strong> Systematic persecution in Iran. More than 200 Bahá'ís executed after the revolution, including the entire elected national assembly twice over; property confiscated; young people barred from university. The community responded by creating the underground Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education, whose teachers have themselves been imprisoned.
- 2018–present Continued arrests in Iran and Yemen; the Lotus Temple in Delhi is among the most visited buildings on earth.
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