Baha’is throughout the world strive, both individually and collectively, to become involved in the life of society, working shoulder to shoulder with diverse groups to contribute to the advancement of material and spiritual civilisation.

The Baha’is of South Australia are actively engaged in neighbourhood community development activities that are open to all, regardless of faith or background.

This includes providing spiritual empowerment programs for junior youth aged 11-14, spiritual education classes for children, gatherings that strengthen the devotional life of the community, and study circles on spiritual themes.

There are Baha’is throughout metropolitan Adelaide and in many regional areas of the State. Twenty Local Spiritual Assemblies coordinate Baha’i activities in various urban and regional localities.

The Baha’i Centre of Learning for South Australia is located at 275 Flinders Street, Adelaide.

Formerly the Flinders Street School of Music, this restored heritage building also provides a venue for educational and community building activities and other events. It was established for the benefit of the people of South Australia.

The first South Australian Baha’is were Pearce and Maysie Almond, who joined the Baha’i Faith in Adelaide after meeting Clara and Hyde Dunn, who had brought the Faith to Australia in 1920. The first Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Adelaide was formed in December 1924.

Hilda Brooks, an early South Australian Baha’i, was the first secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Australia and New Zealand. For the first decade of its existence, the national secretariat for the Australian Baha’i community was based in her home in Adelaide, before moving to its permanent seat in Sydney in 1944.