GREENWICH
BAHA'I COMMUNITY
The Baha'i Faith is established virtually in every country across the world
STATISTICS
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" ~ Baha'u'llah
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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~ Baha'u'llah
STATISTICS OF THE BAHA'I FAITH
More than 6 million Baha'is reside in 190 independent countries and 46 territories in the world.
The Baha'i Faith is established in virtually every country and in many dependent territories and overseas departments of countries.
About 2,100 indigenous tribes, races, and ethnic groups are represented in the Bahá'í community.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbook has listed the Baha'i Faith as the second most widespread religion in the world (in terms of geographic reach), after Christianity.
There is only one Baha'i Faith - no schisms or no factions. A robust framework has been established which ensures that the Faith remains impenetrable, indestructible and always united.
Members of the Bahá'í Faith are engaged in approximately 800 ongoing social and economic development projects, and several thousand smaller projects of fixed duration.
Baha'is live in some 100,000 localities around the globe.
Each year, over 400,000 people visit the Baha'i Shrine, terraces, and gardens on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
The Bahá'í International Community has been registered with the United Nations as a nongovernmental organization since 1948, it holds consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and with UNICEF, and it has an ongoing working relationship with several other UN agencies.
In Iran, where the Bahá'í Faith originated, there are now about 300,000 Baha’is, constituting the largest religious minority in that country.
There are currently ten Baha'i Houses of Worship - in Australia, Germany, India, Panama, Samoa, Uganda, the United States, Chile, Cambodia and Colombia. More than 130 sites for future temples have been acquired.
Baha'i writings, prayers, books and other literature have been translated into more than 800 languages.
The country with the most Baha'is is India, with well over a million Bahá'ís. The Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi is the most visited Baha'i site in the world, with over four million visitors annually.
"We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions."
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