The Bahá'í community warmly welcomes visitors and friends to its Holy Day observances and events throughout the year. For specific information or requests for information not noted below, please call (603) 433-5528 or e-mail info@bahaisofportsmouth.org.

• Devotional gatherings

The Portsmouth community has periodic meetings for prayer and devotions. If you are interested in learning more about the Bahá'í Faith and would like to visit a devotional gathering, please contact us using this form


• Bahá'í Holy Days

"The Báb, the Primal Point of a new creation, brought humanity into a new division of time in a calendar of nineteen months. All through our past heritage the months of the years and the days of the week have born the names of pagan feasts and Roman holidays. The Báb swept these ancient landmarks away, and replaced them by the Qualities of: Splendour, Glory, Beauty, Grandeur, Light, Mercy, Words, Perfection, Names, Might, Will, Knowledge, Power, Speech, Questions, Honour, Sovereignty, Dominion and Loftiness.

Meditating upon these sublime attributes, man is enabled to gaze beyond the curve of time, wherein the swing and change of planetary movement exists, to the eternal qualities that stabilize the soul. As the seasons return with their quaternary beauty, as the seed sacrifices to the mystery of the harvest, we see reflected in the mirror of the physical world the spriritual springtime when the Word of God is planted in the heart of man by the coming of God's Messengers.

The cycle of the year ends with a period of nineteen days of fasting to prepare for the coming of Naw Rúz, the New Year, when both the physical and spiritual beauty blend and we advance to another year in which to mature the soul and prepare 'for the everlasting kingdom'."