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Fifty years ago, landmark gatherings lifted Baha’i world

February 10, 2009

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Attendance at the conference in Chicago in 1958 was 1,660. This year’s gathering there drew 2,340 people and was one of six conferences in the United States, one of 13 in the Americas. (Baha’i World Centre photograph)