Baháʼí Faith in Mozambique
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The Baháʼí Faith in Mozambique begins after the mention of Africa in Baháʼí literature when ʻAbdu'l-Bahá suggested it as a place to take the religion to in 1916.[1] The first known Baháʼí to enter the region was in 1951–52 at Beira when a British pioneer came through on the way to what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.[2][3] The Mozambique Baháʼí community participated in successive stages of regional organization across southern Africa from 1956[4] through the election of its first Mozambique Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly in 1957[3] and on to its own National Spiritual Assembly was elected in 1985.[5] Since 1984 the Baháʼís have begun to hold development projects.[6] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated just over 2,800 Baháʼís in 2005.[7]