By Marzieh Gail The Baha’i World, Volume X, pp.679-683. It rained a little that first afternoon and the air was full of omens. For weeks, San Francisco had been getting ready; signs read, “Let’s clean up-company coming”; hotels put...
October is a very special month for those of us living in California because it marks the anniversary of when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited our state during his journey across the United States in 1912. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spent time in San Francisco,...
ABDU’L-BAHA IN GOLDEN GATE PARK During his 1912 visit to San Francisco, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá enjoyed visiting Golden Gate Park and walking near Lloyd Lake. The link below will take you to a compilation excerpted from contemporary accounts of Baha’is who...
The gravesites of Robert Turner, Phoebe Hearst, Helen Goodall, Ella Goodall Cooper and other Bahá’ís are located at Cypress Lawn in the town of Colma, south of San Francisco. Cypress Lawn Cemetery 1370 El Camino Real Colma, California See interactive map of Bahá’ís buried in...