Kalifornsky Bahá'í Community

The Bahá'í Faith is one of the great untold stories of our time.

Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith was born into a noble family in Iran more than 180 years ago.  He forsook his life of wealth and comfort for one of imprisonment, torture and exile in order to share his unique insights into the condition of the world with those around him.  His life and teachings are the inspiration for the 5 million Bahá'ís in the world today.

The Bahá'í Faith is the youngest of the world's independent religions. Bahá'ís regard Bahá'u'lláh as the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad.

The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's message is that humanity is one single race and that the day has come for its unification in one global society. God, Bahá'u'lláh said, has set in motion historical forces that are breaking down traditional barriers of race, class, creed, and nation and that will, in time, give birth to a universal civilization. The principal challenge facing the peoples of the earth is to accept the fact of their oneness and to assist the processes of unification.

One of the purposes of the Bahá'í Faith is to help make this possible. The worldwide community of Bahá'ís are striving to give Bahá'u'lláh's teachings practical effect. Their experience will be a source of encouragement to all who share their vision of humanity as one global family and the earth as one homeland.