Ten Year Crusade

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Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)
Epoch	First Epoch
Coordinator	Shoghi Effendi, Hands of the Cause
Protagonists	Australia and New Zealand, British Isles, Canada, Central America, Egypt and Sudan, India, Pakistan and Burma, Iraq, Italy and Switzerland, Persia, South America, Germany and Austria, United States of America
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Divine Plan
First Epoch (1937-1963)
Shoghi Effendi
1st Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) 2nd Seven Year Plan (1946-1953) African Campaign (1950-1953) Australian Six Year Plan (1947-1953) British Six Year Plan (1944-1950) British Two Year Plan (1951-1953) Canadian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Central American One Year Plan (1952-1953) Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Egyptian Five Year Plan (1948-1953) Indian Six Year Plan (1938-1944) Indian Four Year Plan (1946-1950) Indian Nineteen Month Plan (1951-1953) Iraqi Three Year Plan (1950-1953) Persian Four Year Plan (1946-1950) Ten Year Crusade (1953-1963)
Second Epoch (1963-)
Universal House of Justice
Nine Year Plan (1964-1973) Five Year Plan (1974-1979) Seven Year Plan (1979-1986) Six Year Plan (1986-1992) Three Year Plan (1993-1996) Four Year Plan (1996-2000) Twelve Month Plan (2000-2001) Five Year Plan (2001-2006) Five Year Plan (2006-2011) Five Year Plan (2011-2016) Five Year Plan (2016-2021)
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The Ten Year Crusade, also known as the Ten Year World Crusade or Ten Year Spiritual Crusade (1953 - 1963) was a plan launched by Shoghi Effendi in an effort to facilitate an organized expansion of the Bahá’í Faith.

Among the goals of the plan were to begin an enormous effort of teaching and consolidation of the Faith, and in 1963 the plan culminated with the first election of the Universal House of Justice.

The four primary goals[1] of the Ten Year Crusade were outlined as follows:

a) the development of institutions at the World Centre
b) consolidation of the twelve countries where the Faith was well established
c) consolidation of all other territories already open
d) the opening of the remaining "chief virgin territories" around the globe

A further list of goals for the Ten Year Crusade by Shoghi Effendi can be found in his Messages to the Bahá’í World.

To those Bahá’ís who arose to open new territories to the Faith during the Ten Year Crusade, the title 'Knight of Bahá’u’lláh' was given. In 1992, the Roll of Honour containing the names of all the Knights of Bahá’u’lláh was deposited beneath the entrance door to the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh.

Before the plan was completed, Shoghi Effendi died in 1957 and the Hands of the Cause continued the Ten Year Crusade following Shoghi Effendi's instructions until the formation of the Universal House of Justice in 1963.

After its election, the House of Justice wrote:

"The rightness of the time was further confirmed by references in Shoghi Effendi's letters to the Ten Year Crusade's being followed by other plans under the direction of the Universal House of Justice. ..."

(Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986, p. 50)