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Baháʼí Faith

monotheistic religion revealed by Bahāʾullāh
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Summary

Baháʼí Faith is a religious organization[1]. It ranks in the top 0.46% of religious organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75,134 views/month, #1 of 216).[2]

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: Manichaeism[3], Zoroastrianism[4], Bábism[5], Islam[6], Shaykhism[7]
  • Instance of: religion[8]
  • Founder: Baháʼu'lláh[9]
  • Named after: Baháʼu'lláh[10]
  • Subclass of: Abrahamic religion[11]
  • Commons category: Baháʼí Faith[12]
  • Foundational text: Kitáb-i-Aqdas[13], Kitáb-i-Íqán[14], The Hidden Words[15], Bayán[16]
  • Country of origin: Iran[17]
  • Inception: 1863[18]
  • Official website: https://bahai.org[19], https://bahai.no[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bahá'í Faith[21]
  • Commons gallery: Baháʼí Faith[22]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Bahá'í Faith[23]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: religion=bahai[24]
  • Member count: 7,106,420[25]
  • Practiced by: Baháʼí[26]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of the Bahá'í Faith[28]

Why It Matters

Baháʼí Faith has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 258 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

Alex Rocco Amir-Abbas Hoveyda Auguste Forel Baháʼu'lláh Barbara Hale Carole Lombard Cathy Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Eva LaRue ʻAbdu'l-Bahá Iran John Wiegley Joop Kiefte Kitáb-i-Aqdas Malietoa Tanumafili II Marie of Romania Nelson Évora Omid Djalili Penn Badgley Rainn Wilson Ronald McNair Shoghi Effendi University of Vienna

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . Baha'i Religious History. wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . Baha'i Religious History. wikidata.org.
  13. [4] ↑ . Baha'i Religious History. wikidata.org.
  14. [5] ↑ . Baha'i Religious History. wikidata.org.
  15. [6] ↑ . Baha'i Religious History. wikidata.org.
  16. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . en.wikipedia.org. en.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Grantham Town F.C.
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 9w ago · Estopedist1 · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → Baháʼí
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Practiced by: Baháʼí"
  3. 11w ago · آیات محراج · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → religious organization, religion
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: religion"
  4. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0010368-bahaismus
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0010368-bahaismus, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Abrahamic religion
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 18979, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  6. 23w ago · Maddi · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → religious organization, religion
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: religious organization"
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