Baha'i Faith in Russia
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 136 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5094-3945-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Baha'i Faith (Вера Бахаи) in Russia begins with connections during the Russian rule in Azerbaijan in the Russian Empire in figure of a woman who would play a central role in the religion of the Bab, viewed by Baha?is as the direct predecessor of the Baha'i Faith - she would be later named Tahirih. Soon after, Russian diplomats to Persia would observe, react to, and sends updates about, the Babi religion which was succeeded by their encounters with Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith. While the religion spread across the Russian Empire and attracted the attention of scholars and artists, the Baha'i community in Ashgabat built the first Baha'i House of Worship, elected one of the first Baha'i local administrative institutions and was a center of scholarship. During the period of the Soviet Union Russia adopted the Soviet policy of oppression of religion, so the Baha'is, strictly adhering to their principle of obedience to legal...