Opportunities to Engage
Attend a Baha’i conference or retreat center for an afternoon or a weekend. Find a family-friendly summer or winter camp near you. Take an online course or meet Baha’is through a video chat. Browse the calendar below for these and other opportunities to engage that are open to everyone.
FIND ACTIVITIES NEAR YOU
Most Baha’i community activities—prayer gatherings, study circles, activities for children and teens—take place in homes and community centers in towns and cities across the United States.
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What World Civilization Looks Like from Baha’i Perspective
We would like to invite you to the next talk in our series Bahá'í Faith Modern Perspectives! This is a weekly virtual talk series every Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Each week, a speaker from the Bahá'í Faith shares his or her perspective on a topic of modern significance. After the talk, there
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Virtual Devotions
Staff members from the Baha’i House of worship are hosting daily virtual devotional programs at 12:30 p.m. Each session begins with a brief planned program of prayers and then participants from around the world are invited to share their own prayers and songs. (Visit http://www.bahaiprayers.org/) Everyone is welcome to attend and share scripture or songs from
Find out more »Devotional Program in Celebration of Ayyam-i-Ha
The Baha’i House of Worship will host a special devotional program in celebration of the Baha'i holiday, Ayyam-i-Ha. Children from Baha'i children's classes in Chicago will read prayers and passages at the beginning of the devotional and then participants from around the world, especially children, will be welcome to share prayers and readings from any
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‘Navigating the Double Epoch: Thoughts on Changing Humanity’s Current Plot Line’
Join us for a conversation around essay ‘Navigating the Double Epoch: Thoughts on Changing Humanity’s Current Plot Line’ which sets out the case for viewing the great global crises of our times as the result of a failure to accept the oneness of humanity as a core organizing principle. Its author, Hugh Locke, will be joined
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Practicing Resilience in a Time of Historic Portent
This program is part of Racial Healing-Racial Justice: A Bahá'í-Inspired Series “Bahá’u’lláh,” Abdu’l-Bahá has said, “once compared the colored people to the black pupil of the eye surrounded by the white. In this black pupil is seen the reflection of that which is before it, and through it the light of the spirit shineth forth.”
Find out more »About the Bahá’í Calendar and Holy Days
The Baha’i Faith has its own calendar, called the Badí’ Calendar. It is a solar calendar consisting of 19 months of 19 days each (361 days), plus “Intercalary Days” (four in ordinary years and five in leap years) to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The days and months are named after the attributes of God. The Nineteen Day Feast, the primary community gathering for Baha’is in each town and city, is held on the first day of each Baha’i month. Eleven Holy Days mark significant events in Baha’i history.
