Amazing growth with respect to the administrative order of the Faith In 1953 there were only 12 National Spiritual Assemblies. In Ridvan 1964, there were 69 National Spiritual Assemblies!! In 1953 there were “slightly more than six hundred Local Spiritual Assemblies, the greater part of which were situated in Persia, North America and Europe ..” In Ridvan 1964, there were “nearly four thousand six hundred Local Spiritual Assemblies scattered throughout the continents and islands of the world.”!! Total National Spiritual Assemblies Year Number of NSAs 1953 12 1963 56 1973 113 1979 125 1988 148 Formation of National Spiritual Assemblies by year 1923 British Isles, Germany, India 1924 Egypt 1925 United States of America and Canada 1931 Iraq 1934 Australia and New Zealand, Persia 1948 Canada 1953 Italy and Switzerland 1956 Central & East Africa, North West Africa, South & West Africa 1957 Alaska, Arabia, New Zealand, North East Asia (Japan), Pakistan, South East Asia; Mexico and the Republics of Central America; The Greater Antilles; The Republics of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela; The Republics of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay & Bolivia; Scandinavia and Finland; the Benelux Countries; The Iberian Peninsula. 1958 France 1959 Austria, Burma, South Pacific, Turkey, 1961 Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Brazil. 1962 Belgium, Ceylon, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Switzerland 1964 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, 1967 Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Laos 1969 Papua New Guinea 1972 Singapore 1977 Greece 1980 Transkei 1984 Cape Verde Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, French Guiana, Grenada, Martinique, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Yemen, Canary Islands 1991 Czechoslovakia, Romania & Soviet Union 1992 Greenland, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bielarus & Moldavia; Russia, Georgia & Armenia; Central Asia, Bulgaria, Baltic States, Albania, Poland, Hungary 1994 Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Slovenia & Croatia, 1995 Eritrea, Armenia, Georgia, Belarus, Sicily. 1996 São Tome & Principe, Moldova 1999 Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia WHO ELSE?
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