Sydney
Sydney, Australia
2 stories took place here — most often featuring Shoghi Effendi, Clara Dunn and Hyde Dunn.
Sydney (today: Sydney, Australia)
Stories at this place
Formative Age / Shoghi Effendi (1921–1957) · 2 stories
Shoghi Effendi's First Letter to Australia
A short paraphrase from the Baha'i Stories Blog about a letter the young Guardian sent in early 1922 to the small Bahá'í community of Australia, then concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne — one of the first messages sent in the new ministry, encouraging the friends to hold steadily through the change.
Father Dunn: The Spiritual Conqueror of a Continent
Already past sixty, a travelling salesman named Hyde Dunn and his wife Clara left America to carry the Bahá'í message to a continent where it had never been heard. Town by town across Australia they planted the Faith, and Shoghi Effendi gave them the names by which they are remembered — "Father" and "Mother" Dunn, and Australia's "spiritual conqueror."