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Bahai'a faith growing in Georgia
Large concentration of members live, worship in state
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Jake Hendrix, left, spoke about what it is to be Baha’i to his fellow believers during a session Sept. 19 at Atlanta Bread Company in Gainesville. “To be Baha’i you have to be a Christian, you have to be Jewish, you have to be a Muslim. To be Baha’i you have to be it all,” Hendrix said. - photo by JOSHUA L. JONES
Around the same time that America was breaking into a Civil War, a Persian nobleman named Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri announced he was a “Manifestation of God.” In the spring of 1863, he and his followers convened, changed Nuri’s name to Baha’u’llah and declared a new religion — the Baha’i faith. Now, the religion is among the fastest growing world religions and has gained more than 5 million followers worldwide.