Declaration of the Báb

Culture of origin: Bahá’í · Cultural

Holiday sources: Bahá'í Faith · Iran

On the evening of 22 May 1844, in his house in Shiraz, the Báb declared to Mullá Ḥusayn, a seeker who had come to the city, that he was the bearer of divine knowledge. Mullá Ḥusayn became his first disciple, and within five months seventeen others followed; these eighteen are known as the Letters of the Living. The Bahá'í calendar counts its years from 1844, the year of this declaration.