January 18, 2021

8 April 1853: Bahá’u’lláh arrived in Baghdád

Finally, on the 28th of Jamádíyu’th-Thání 1269 A.H. (April 8, 1853), Bahá’u’lláh arrived in Baghdád, the capital city of what was then the Turkish province of ‘Iráq. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (‘God Passes By’)