Victoria BC Bahá'í Community

Blessed is the Spot in Lekwungen
Beauty of restored Shrine set to dazzle visitors and pilgrims. After more than two years of extensive restoration work, Haifa's golden-domed Baha'i Shrine has been unveiled, to the delight of visitors and pilgrims.
Activities in the Community

We invite you to explore the teachings of our beautiful Faith and to join us in creating a better world, one heart, one family, one community at a time. In each corner of our thriving city Bahá’ís are holding study circles, prayer gatherings, programs for our precious children, for its junior youth & youth. These programs are changing lives and responding to the social and spiritual needs of our fellow Victorians. Take a look at our Calendar for events in your neighbourhood, or contact us for more information. Further information about the Bahá'í Faith on the Internet can be found: 

Recent News

Four youth in Guelph, Ontario have been recognized for an effort to make a positive change in the world through a musical video.

January 03, 2012
This past month, December 2011, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation gave their group’s video, Be the Change You Want to See, the award for best musical video and best overall submission to the international Faith Shorts video competition.
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Rug a woven gateway to Baha'i man's past

August 03, 2011
Barred from attending post-secondary, a much younger Sohail Mahbobi needed a hobby. And when a friend offered to teach Persian rug-making, Mahbobi found one that would stay with him for three decades.
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Canadian senate inquiry into the persecution of the Baha'is of Iran

June 24, 2011
Canadian senate inquiry into the persecution of the Baha’is of Iran
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National success for youth in North Vancouver

June 04, 2011
North Vancouver, British Columbia, 1 June 2011 (CBNS) — In fall 2010, a member of a youth group in North Vancouver suggested a service project for the group. The idea was that the group enter a national video contest, “Racism. Stop It!” sponsored by Immigration Canada, a federal government department.
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1st and 2nd year University/College students: ISGP Seminar (20-30 August 2011)

June 04, 2011
For Canadian Baha’i students between the ages of 17-25 who are currently entering their first or second year of university, college, or their second year of CEGEP in September 2011.
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University of Toronto hosts conference on persecution of Bahai's

June 04, 2011
The University of Toronto will be hosting a significant, historic international symposium on the persecution of Baha’is in Iran, July 1-3: “Intellectual Othering and the Baha’i Question in Iran” (http://iranianstudies.ca/bahai/).
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Baha'i books are now available

June 04, 2011
The Well – a bookstore/café/marketplace located at 821 Fort Street (between Blanshard and Quadra, in downtown).
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Retired Baha'i MD produces first opera

May 20, 2011
After pondering the idea for forty years, retired Baha’i medical doctor Peter Paul Morgan and his wife Wynne decided to write and sponsor an opera in the small town of Perth, Ontario.
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