Martha Root

Martha Root

female, deceased (1939)
Baha'i Faith, HandsoftheCause, Bahá'í individuals, Hands of the Cause of God, Oberlin College alumni, Hand of the Cause…Queen Marie of Romania
Martha Louise Root was a prominent traveling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of th...

Horace Holley

male, deceased (1960)
Baha'i Faith, Hand of the Cause, Bahá'í individuals, Hands of the Cause of God, HandsoftheCause, haifa
Horace Holley was a prominent follower of the Bahá'í Faith, having been elected to several Spiritual Assemblies, appointed by Shoghi Effendi in 19...

Rúhíyyih Khanum

female, deceased (2000)
Canadian of British Isles descent, Baha'i Faith, Bahá'í individuals, American, Bahá'í holy family, From Montreal…Hands of the Cause of God, HandsoftheCause, Hand of the Cause, The Greatest Canadian
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum, born Mary Maxwell was the wife of Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921-1957. She was appointed by hi...
Collis Featherstone

Collis Featherstone

male
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, nepal, Bahá'í administration, Harold Collis Featherstone, HandsoftheCause…Hands of the Cause of God, Hand of the Cause of God
Harold Collis Featherstone was a prominent Bahá'í from Adelaide, Australia. He became a Bahá'í in 1944, and served in the National Spiritual Asse...
Leroy Ioas

Leroy Ioas

male
Baha'i Faith, HandsoftheCause, Hands of the Cause of God, Bahá'í individuals, International Bahá'í Council, Universal House of Justice
Leroy Ioas was a Hands of the Cause of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1952 he was appointed to the International Bahá'í Council, precursor to the Univ...

George Townshend

male, deceased (1957)
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Bahá'í individuals, Irish, journalist, Hands of the Cause of God…HandsoftheCause, Hand of the Cause, Sewanee, The University of the South
George Townshend was born in Ireland and was a well known writer, clergyman before his conversion to the Bahá'í Faith in which he became a Hand of...
John Robarts

John Robarts

male
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, John Aldham Robarts, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, HandsoftheCause, Hands of the Cause of God…Hand of the Cause of God
John Aldham Robarts was a prominent Canadian Bahá'í. He was born on 2 November 1901 in Waterloo, Ontario, to Aldham Wilson Robarts and Rachel Ma...

`alí-Akbar Furútan

male
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Baha'i World Centre, Hands of the Cause of God, Hand of the Cause of God, Bahá'í individuals…HandsoftheCause, University of Moscow
`Alí-Akbar Furútan was a prominent Iranian Bahá'í. Due to persecution, his family moved from Sabzivár in Khurásán to Ashkhabad across the Russian...
Hasan M. Balyuzi

Hasan M. Balyuzi

male
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, London School of Economics, Spiritual Assembly, Persian Gulf, HandsoftheCause…Hands of the Cause of God, Hand of the Cause of God, Alumni of the London School of Economics
Hasan M. Balyuzi was a prominent Iranian Bahá'í. He was born in Iran, but he spent most of his life in Britain. Balyuzi was an Afnán, a des...

Abu'L-Qásim Faizi

male, deceased (1992)
Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Bahá'í individuals, Hand of the Cause of God, persian, bahrain…american university of beirut, Hands of the Cause of God, HandsoftheCause
Abu'l-Qásim Faizi or Fayḍí was a Persian Bahá'í. He studied at the American University of Beirut. He married Gloria `Alá'í in 1939. Together...