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| Monireh with her son Nushin Mavaddat |
Monireh Missaghieh-Mavaddat pioneered from Iran alongside her husband to Algeria, where they were founding members of the country’s first Bahá’í Spiritual Assembly, and later in Nice, France, where they similarly co-founded the first Spiritual Assembly.
Daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Missagh Missaghieh, renowned founder of the Missaghieh Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Monireh passed away February 2, 2017, at age 101. Until her recent relocation to Highland Park, Illinois, she had lived more than a decade in San Francisco, California.
Praising her “warm, joyful, and cheerful life, an example of generosity, hospitality, and kindness to the many whose lives she touched and affected for the better” — as well as her “outstanding services to the unifying Faith of Bahá’u’lláh on the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America” — a letter of condolence from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States to her children says, “Especially do we note, with warmest admiration, her obedient response to the beloved Guardian’s Ten Year World Crusade and its clarion call for believers to take the Faith to the far-off lands as yet unaffected by it.”
Born in Kashan, Iran, in 1916, Monireh was the eldest child of Maryam Mottahedeh-Missaghieh and ‘Abdu’l-Missagh Missaghieh. She married Rouhollah Mavaddat and they brought up three children.
When Shoghi Effendi proclaimed the Ten Year Crusade, few Bahá’ís lived in Algeria. In 1953, Monireh and Rouhollah arose and moved the family to Algiers, doing their part to ensure the Local Spiritual Assembly was established in April 1954.
Setting their sights on another goal of the Crusade, in 1955 they moved to Nice, and in their 12 years living there they helped to establish and solidify its Local Assembly. After a return to Tehran, a brief pioneering venture later took Monireh and Rouhollah to Quincy, Illinois, where they helped restore its Local Assembly.
Early in the 1970s they resettled in Iran for the duration. Rouhollah passed away in 1980, about a year before his nephew Farhang Mavaddat, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Karaj (near Tehran), became a martyr as he was executed by Iranian authorities.
Monireh stayed in Iran until the late 1990s, when she was granted permission to leave the country. She first lived in France with her son Rochan; one of her many legacies to the Bahá’í Faith is the service of a granddaughter, Roxana Mavaddat Baghdadi, on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of France. Some time later, Monireh obtained a U.S. visa and was able to move to the United States near her children Nishin and Shahine.
Monireh Missaghieh-Mavaddat’s surviving family includes a daughter, Shahine Safapour of Illinois; two sons, Rochan Mavaddat of France and Nushin Mavaddat of California; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Daughter of ‘Abdu’l-Missagh Missaghieh, renowned founder of the Missaghieh Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Monireh passed away February 2, 2017, at age 101. Until her recent relocation to Highland Park, Illinois, she had lived more than a decade in San Francisco, California.
Praising her “warm, joyful, and cheerful life, an example of generosity, hospitality, and kindness to the many whose lives she touched and affected for the better” — as well as her “outstanding services to the unifying Faith of Bahá’u’lláh on the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America” — a letter of condolence from the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States to her children says, “Especially do we note, with warmest admiration, her obedient response to the beloved Guardian’s Ten Year World Crusade and its clarion call for believers to take the Faith to the far-off lands as yet unaffected by it.”
Born in Kashan, Iran, in 1916, Monireh was the eldest child of Maryam Mottahedeh-Missaghieh and ‘Abdu’l-Missagh Missaghieh. She married Rouhollah Mavaddat and they brought up three children.
When Shoghi Effendi proclaimed the Ten Year Crusade, few Bahá’ís lived in Algeria. In 1953, Monireh and Rouhollah arose and moved the family to Algiers, doing their part to ensure the Local Spiritual Assembly was established in April 1954.
Setting their sights on another goal of the Crusade, in 1955 they moved to Nice, and in their 12 years living there they helped to establish and solidify its Local Assembly. After a return to Tehran, a brief pioneering venture later took Monireh and Rouhollah to Quincy, Illinois, where they helped restore its Local Assembly.
Early in the 1970s they resettled in Iran for the duration. Rouhollah passed away in 1980, about a year before his nephew Farhang Mavaddat, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Karaj (near Tehran), became a martyr as he was executed by Iranian authorities.
Monireh stayed in Iran until the late 1990s, when she was granted permission to leave the country. She first lived in France with her son Rochan; one of her many legacies to the Bahá’í Faith is the service of a granddaughter, Roxana Mavaddat Baghdadi, on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of France. Some time later, Monireh obtained a U.S. visa and was able to move to the United States near her children Nishin and Shahine.
Monireh Missaghieh-Mavaddat’s surviving family includes a daughter, Shahine Safapour of Illinois; two sons, Rochan Mavaddat of France and Nushin Mavaddat of California; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
https://www.bahai.us/community/news/2017/september-october-2017/monireh-missaghieh-mavaddat-helped-establish-bahai-communities-on-three-continents/
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