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Baháʼí Faith in the Samoas
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The Baháʼí Faith in Samoa and American Samoa begins with the then head of the religion, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, mentioning the islands in 1916.[1] This inspired Baháʼís on their way to Australia in 1920 to stop in Samoa.[2] Thirty four years later another Baháʼí from Australia pioneered to Samoa in 1954.[3] With the first converts the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly was elected in 1961,[4] and the Baháʼí National Spiritual Assembly was first elected in 1970. Following the conversion of Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoa's then-head of state, the first Baháʼí House of Worship in the Pacific region was completed in 1984 and the Baháʼí community reached a population of over 3,000 by the year 2000.[5][6]
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