Bahá'í Holy Day

First Day of Riḍván

The first of the twelve days commemorating Bahá'u'lláh's declaration in the Garden of Riḍván outside Baghdád in 1863.

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The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván

Esslemont's account of the twelve days Bahá'u'lláh spent in the Garden of Najíb Páshá outside Baghdád in April 1863, where, on what Bahá'ís remember as the First Day of Riḍván, He declared to His followers that He was the One whose coming the Báb had foretold.

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