Here is a third selection of activities from around the UK marking the bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb. Please remember to report all bicentenary activities using the online form . The 72-hour rolling news coverage continues on the international Bicentenary site and there’s more on theUK Bahá’í Bicentenary Facebook page .
Jim Shannon, MP for Strangford, welcomed guests to celebrations for the bicentenary hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Bahá’í Faith in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster . Actor and comedian Omid Djalili performed an extract from his play, A Strange Bit of History .
Bicentenary celebrations in Bangor , Northern Ireland.
More than 100 guests attended the bicentenary in Kensington and Chelsea , London, including HRH Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, great-granddaughter of Queen Marie of Romania.
Festival at the Hub in Belfast’s Windsor neighbourhood, as featured in Dawn of the Light .
Friends gather to celebrate the bicentenary in Brighton .
Neighbourhood community celebrations took place in Ardwick, Manchester.
Bicentenary celebration in Poole Bay, including many friends from the more remote villages and towns of Dorset. The meal was followed by a showing of Dawn of the Light. The junior youth had made a hand-painted fabric hanging for the event which was on display.
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