Sita Walker

And he says that he was taken with the principles of the Baha'i faith, which is essentially that the prophet founder of the Baha'i faith, whose name is Baha'u'llah, was the latest in a line of divine messengers from God.

And the Baha'is see that every religion has come from the same God.

So they believe in the unity of religion and the unity of God.

And they believe that those divine messengers or manifestations of God on earth have come in different times to teach humanity a message from God for that particular time in the development of humanity.

So he really liked that idea, the idea of the oneness of religion and the oneness of mankind.

Well, my mother was born into a Baha'i family.

My mother was born in Iran, but when she was very young, my grandfather died in Iran and my grandmother moved her children back to India because my grandmother had lived in India.

And then her son, my uncle, grew up and he met a Baha'i woman in India from Australia called Joan.

And he went back to Australia with Joan and they got married.

And that's how my family, my mother's side of the family, ended up coming to Australia because my grandmother wanted to see her son again.

Baha'is have what's called a 19-day feast, which is our sort of version of going to church.

So every 19 days, Baha'is will go and meet.

And we don't really have churches.

We have temples, but our temples are vast and grand, and so there's only one in Australia.

It's in Sydney.

But we would just meet at a Baha'i centre, which was a house.

And there would be prayers and then there would sort of be an administrative portion of the meeting.

And then we would have, you know, supper, something to eat.

So we would do that every 19 days and we would dress up for that like you would dress up to go to church, I suppose.

And on Sundays, we would sort of go for Sunday prayers and I would go to a Sunday school class, which was really like a virtues class, really.