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Robert Chaittle Turner (c. October 15, 1855/56 – June 15, 1909) was the first African American Bahá’í and one of the nineteen Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Life. Robert Turner was born on a farm outside of Norfolk, Virginia in the mid-1850s. As a teenager, Turner moved to California and worked for the Palace Hotel.
In volumes of The Baháʼí World published in 1930 and 1933, Shoghi Effendi named nineteen Baháʼís as disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and heralds of the Covenant, including Thornton Chase, Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney , John Esslemont, Lua Getsinger, and Robert Turner.
The Báb's first religious experience, witnessed by his wife, is dated to about the evening of April 3. [2] (1260 AH), May 22, evening, the Báb declares his mission to Mulla Husayn in Shiraz, Iran. May 22–23, overnight, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá is born to Navváb and Baháʼu'lláh. By late September Baháʼu'lláh accepts the Bábí religion.
The following list is an overview of Baháʼí Houses of Worship (Mashriqu'l-Adhkár) throughout the world that have been constructed, are currently under construction, or are in the planning phases. 1. A school for boys (completed in 1897), a school for girls (completed in 1907), a travellers' hostel, a medical dispensary, a library and a ...
Kindle:1533 Lua in particular was successful igniting Hearst's interest in the new religion and as well as that of her butler, African-American Robert Turner, who overheard the conversations. [ 33 ] : pp226-7 Phoebe's response was enthusiastic and she arranged for Lua to being a class which started at the Hacienda and then moved to an apartment ...
The Baha'i Faith in America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742562349. OCLC 1244209170. McMullen, Mike (2000). The Baháʼí: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813528366. McMullen, Mike (2015). The Baháʼís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-5152-2.
The Baháʼí Faith was first mentioned in the United States in 1893 at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. [ 1] Soon after, early American converts began embracing the new religion. Thornton Chase was the most prominent among the first American Baha'is and made important contributions to early activities. [ 2]
The Babi and Baha'i Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521301282. Warburg, Margit (2006). Citizens of the world: a history and sociology of the Bahaʹis from a globalisation perspective. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-0746-1. OCLC 234309958