Bahai community

Leaders of the Mandalay Bahai community in 1930. The Bahai are one of Myanmar's smallest and perhaps least known religious minorities. There are an estimated 80,000 Bahai in Myanmar.

Bahai is a world-wide religion of about 5 million people (mainly in Asia, Africa and the America) that was founded in the mid-19th century. The first Burmese converted to the Bahai faith in the late 19th century. Interestingly, the huge marble sarcophagus in which the Bahai founded is buried (on Mount Carmel in Israel) was made in Mandalay.( By Than Myint -U)