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The area of land in the Jordan Valley dedicated to the Baha'i Shrines is over five hundred acres. The site purchased for future Baha'i Temple of Persia comprises three and a half million square meters. The cost of the structure of the first Baha'i Temple in the West has been one million, three hundred thousand dollars. (71:2) In every state and province of North America Baha'i Assemblies are functioning. In thirteen hundred localities of the United States and Canada Baha'is reside. Baha'i Centers have been established in every republic of Latin America, fifteen of which possess Spiritual Assemblies. The Faith in the Western Hemisphere now stretches from Anchorage, Alaska, to Magallanes, the world's southernmost city. Sixty-two Centers have been established in India, twenty-seven with Spiritual Assemblies.
(71:3)
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