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It was to the first of these two officially designated Baha'i cemeteries, following the decision of the Egyptian Baha'i National Assembly aided by its sister- Assembly in Persia, that the remains of the illustrious Mirza Abu'l- Fadl were transferred and accorded a sepulture worthy of his high position, thereby inaugurating, in a befitting manner, the first official Baha'i institution of its kind established in the East. This achievement was, soon after, enhanced by the exhumation from a Christian cemetery in Cairo of the body of that far- famed mother teacher of the West, Mrs. E. Getsinger, and its interment, through the assistance extended by the American Baha'i National Assembly and the Department of State in Washington, in a spot in the heart of that cemetery and adjoining the resting- place of that distinguished author and champion of the Faith.
(368:3)
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