The Baha'i Temple in Delhi. Founded in the mid-18th Century in Iran, the principal Baha'i tenets are the essential unity of all religions and the unity of humanity. Baha'is believe that all the founders of the world's great religions were manifestations of God and agents of a progressive divine plan for the education of the human race. The world's great religions, according to the Baha'is, teach an identical truth. Baha'is believe in the oneness of humanity and devote themselves to the abolition of racial, class, and religious prejudices. The great bulk of Baha'i teachings is concerned with social ethics; the faith has no priesthood and does not observe ritual forms in its worship.

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