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Thames Valley celebrates centenary of Abdu’l-Baha’s UK visit

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An event to celebrate the centenary of Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to the UK has been held by the Thames Valley Baha’i community.

The son of the founder of the religion came over to the west to present his beliefs after he had become leader himself.

The event at Maiden Place Community Centre, in Lower Earley,  included an audio visual presentation and a short play followed by dinner for about 200 people.

Guests included Reading’s two MPs Rob Wilson and Alok Sharma and Reading borough Mayor, Councillor Deborah Edwards.

Glorious message of unity from ‘Abdu’l-Baha

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It’s just over 100 years ago – September 1911 – that ‘Abdu’l-Baha arrived in London for a four-week stay as part of his historic Western travels.

At His first ever public talk – given at the City Temple church six days after His arrival in the city – He told the congregation: “The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.”

In Reading on 10 September Baha’is gathered with their neighbours to study the words that He had spoken at the City Temple exactly 100 years earlier. One participant, of Nepalese origin, commented on ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s “glorious message of unity.”

Read here how groups of friends around the UK have been using the centenary to consider how to apply lessons from ‘Abdu’l-Baha to their own lives.