Area Bahai’s prepare to celebrate founder’s birthday
November 1, 2010
Updated: Nov. 2, 11:22 p.m.
A small but growing group of Sammamish residents will celebrate its most important holiday of the year Nov. 12.
The 60 or so Baha’is in Sammamish will commemorate the birth of Baha’u’llah, the faith’s founder, born in 1817 in Persia, now Iran.
To observe the holy day, followers stay home from work and school, read scriptures and gather in fellowship, said Saeed Zamani and Cale Berkey, residents and members of the faith. Sammamish Baha’is also recently celebrated the Oct. 20, 1819 birth of the Bab, considered to be the one who heralded the coming of Baha’u’llah. Read more
