Thomas Breakwell
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Thomas Breakwell was the first Englishman to enter the Baháʼí Faith and the first to make the pilgrimage to Acre, Israel. He was also the first western Baháʼí to give the Huqúqu'lláh "Right of God", a
Denechaud Hotel circa 1900
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange building c. late 1890s
Bay of Akká
The SS City of Paris in the mid 1890s
The Baháʼí Faith in the United Kingdom started in 1898 when Mrs. Mary Thornburgh-Cropper, an American by birth, became the first adherent of the Baháʼí Faith in England. Through the 1930s, the number
Thomas Breakwell
…most significantly and most keenly by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. In 1955 Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, lauded Breakwell as one of the United Kingdom's three luminaries of the Baháʼí Faith. Thomas J. Breakwell was born on 31 May 1872, in the town of Woking in southern England, and was the youngest of five children. His father, Edward…
Waiting room inside the National Bahá'í Centre of the United Kingdom in London
Monument over Shoghi Effendi's resting place