Gateway Arch in St Louis MS. View from the park on a beautiful summer day. Photo by Chris Hardy on Unsplash
In May 2021, Behrad Majidi was one of three historians who spoke on a webinar about the Bahá’í histories of Missouri, Kansas, and North Carolina. We have finally been able to edit and publish his pictorial history of Missouri through the year 1945, with some information about the Bahá’í Faith in the state today. Behrad’s thorough research includes details about philanthropist, feminist and suffragist Phoebe Hearst’s early life in the state before he became a Bahá’í and many 19th and early 20th century newspaper articles that mentioned the Faith, as well as details about the development of the Saint Louis community and formation of its local Spiritual Assembly.
