ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
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ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, born ʻAbbás, was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later canonized as the last of three "central figures" of the religion, along with Baháʼu'lláh and the Báb, and his writings and authenticated talks are regarded as sources of Baháʼí sacred literature.
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (right) with his brother Mírzá Mihdí
Prison in ʻAkká where Baháʼu'lláh and his family were housed
Early Western Baháʼí pilgrims. Standing left to right: Charles Mason Remey, Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and Laura Clifford Barney; Seated left to right: Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, Madam Jackson, Shoghi Effendi, Helen Ellis Cole, Lua Getsinger, Emogene Hoagg
Baháʼí administration
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The Baháʼí administration is a system of elected and appointed institutions to govern the affairs of the Baháʼí community. Its supreme body is the Universal House of Justice, elected every five years.
A diagram of the present Baháʼí administrative order
Vietnamese Baháʼís elect their National Spiritual Assembly in Danang, in 2009.
Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel
Shoghi Effendi's resting place in London at the New Southgate Cemetery