Welcome to the Star of the West Archive

The Star of the West was a Bahá'í periodical which began publication on March 21, 1910 and ended publication under this title in March 1935. The periodical featured translations of some Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and writings from Shoghi Effendi along with sharing news of the Bahá'í world. The text was mostly in English, but also often offered a Persian language section with its own content. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A more recent publication is Bahá'í News, whose archive is at bahai-news.info.


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Volumes 1 to 10 (202 Mb)
Volumes 11 to 20 (317 Mb)
Volumes 21 to 25 (177 Mb)

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