"Alma left for Germany in July 1907. Alma was welcomed in Stuttgart and invited to homes where afternoon and evening events were exciting gatherings for Baha'is and non-Baha'is as well. In the Baha'i World Volume 9, it says that, "Alma worked incessantly, always effacing her own strong personality and accenting the Spirit of Baha'u'llah."
Many young people became Baha'is, formed study groups, and began to correspond with the Holy Family in the Holy Land. Local Spiritual Assemblies were formed in Stuttgart, Esslingen, Zuffenhausen, Leipzig and Gera. 'Abdu'l-Baha encouraged the translation of the Writings into German d and the Baha'is waited eagerly for each new publication. Concerts and assemblies were held where the highlight of the evening was a speaker who introduced the Faith which grew steadily.
Just as she co-pioneered racial unity in North America, she did so too in Europe, when she greeted her sister's D.C. friend Louis Gregory shortly after his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1911. At ‘Abdu'l-Baha's request Mr. Gregory visited Germany in April 1911 after his pilgrimage. The German Baha'i community had been established only a few years earlier. It had grown largely through the efforts of Miss Alma Knobloch, who had settled in Stuttgart in 1907. Miss Knobloch assured his welcome in a land where non-European minorities were few and where, scarcely more than twenty years later, racialism, which Shoghi Effendi has termed one of the "chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind," was to be enshrined by the Nazis in their country's political philosophy. The German Baha'is lovingly welcomed him and held a reception in his honor where he, in their words "told the assembled friends much that was interesting."
When war was declared in 1914 Alma stayed and suffered with her German brothers and sisters. Before Alma returned to the United States, she visited Austria, Switzerland, London and Paris. She taught wherever she went and wrote letters to all her spiritual children."
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Many young people became Baha'is, formed study groups, and began to correspond with the Holy Family in the Holy Land. Local Spiritual Assemblies were formed in Stuttgart, Esslingen, Zuffenhausen, Leipzig and Gera. 'Abdu'l-Baha encouraged the translation of the Writings into German d and the Baha'is waited eagerly for each new publication. Concerts and assemblies were held where the highlight of the evening was a speaker who introduced the Faith which grew steadily.
Just as she co-pioneered racial unity in North America, she did so too in Europe, when she greeted her sister's D.C. friend Louis Gregory shortly after his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1911. At ‘Abdu'l-Baha's request Mr. Gregory visited Germany in April 1911 after his pilgrimage. The German Baha'i community had been established only a few years earlier. It had grown largely through the efforts of Miss Alma Knobloch, who had settled in Stuttgart in 1907. Miss Knobloch assured his welcome in a land where non-European minorities were few and where, scarcely more than twenty years later, racialism, which Shoghi Effendi has termed one of the "chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind," was to be enshrined by the Nazis in their country's political philosophy. The German Baha'is lovingly welcomed him and held a reception in his honor where he, in their words "told the assembled friends much that was interesting."
When war was declared in 1914 Alma stayed and suffered with her German brothers and sisters. Before Alma returned to the United States, she visited Austria, Switzerland, London and Paris. She taught wherever she went and wrote letters to all her spiritual children."
www.DCBahaiTour.org
"Alma left for Germany in July 1907. Alma was welcomed in Stuttgart and invited to homes where afternoon and evening events were exciting gatherings for Baha'is and non-Baha'is as well. In the Baha'i World Volume 9, it says that, "Alma worked incessantly, always effacing her own strong personality and accenting the Spirit of Baha'u'llah."
Many young people became Baha'is, formed study groups, and began to correspond with the Holy Family in the Holy Land. Local Spiritual Assemblies were formed in Stuttgart, Esslingen, Zuffenhausen, Leipzig and Gera. 'Abdu'l-Baha encouraged the translation of the Writings into German d and the Baha'is waited eagerly for each new publication. Concerts and assemblies were held where the highlight of the evening was a speaker who introduced the Faith which grew steadily.
Just as she co-pioneered racial unity in North America, she did so too in Europe, when she greeted her sister's D.C. friend Louis Gregory shortly after his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1911. At ‘Abdu'l-Baha's request Mr. Gregory visited Germany in April 1911 after his pilgrimage. The German Baha'i community had been established only a few years earlier. It had grown largely through the efforts of Miss Alma Knobloch, who had settled in Stuttgart in 1907. Miss Knobloch assured his welcome in a land where non-European minorities were few and where, scarcely more than twenty years later, racialism, which Shoghi Effendi has termed one of the "chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind," was to be enshrined by the Nazis in their country's political philosophy. The German Baha'is lovingly welcomed him and held a reception in his honor where he, in their words "told the assembled friends much that was interesting."
When war was declared in 1914 Alma stayed and suffered with her German brothers and sisters. Before Alma returned to the United States, she visited Austria, Switzerland, London and Paris. She taught wherever she went and wrote letters to all her spiritual children."
www.DCBahaiTour.org
Many young people became Baha'is, formed study groups, and began to correspond with the Holy Family in the Holy Land. Local Spiritual Assemblies were formed in Stuttgart, Esslingen, Zuffenhausen, Leipzig and Gera. 'Abdu'l-Baha encouraged the translation of the Writings into German d and the Baha'is waited eagerly for each new publication. Concerts and assemblies were held where the highlight of the evening was a speaker who introduced the Faith which grew steadily.
Just as she co-pioneered racial unity in North America, she did so too in Europe, when she greeted her sister's D.C. friend Louis Gregory shortly after his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1911. At ‘Abdu'l-Baha's request Mr. Gregory visited Germany in April 1911 after his pilgrimage. The German Baha'i community had been established only a few years earlier. It had grown largely through the efforts of Miss Alma Knobloch, who had settled in Stuttgart in 1907. Miss Knobloch assured his welcome in a land where non-European minorities were few and where, scarcely more than twenty years later, racialism, which Shoghi Effendi has termed one of the "chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind," was to be enshrined by the Nazis in their country's political philosophy. The German Baha'is lovingly welcomed him and held a reception in his honor where he, in their words "told the assembled friends much that was interesting."
When war was declared in 1914 Alma stayed and suffered with her German brothers and sisters. Before Alma returned to the United States, she visited Austria, Switzerland, London and Paris. She taught wherever she went and wrote letters to all her spiritual children."
www.DCBahaiTour.org
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