Baháʼí Faith in Moldova

Before that time, Moldova, as part of the Russian Empire, would have had indirect contact with the Baháʼí Faith as far back as 1847.

During that time the history stretches back to 1847 when the Russian ambassador to Persia, Prince Dimitri Ivanovich Dolgorukov, requested that the Báb, the herald to the Baháʼí Faith who was imprisoned at Maku, be moved elsewhere; he also condemned the massacres of Iranian religionists, and asked for the release of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.

In 1904 a play by poet Isabella Grinevskaya called "Báb" was presented in Saint Petersburg and lauded by Tolstoy and other reviewers at the time.

In 1994, the 20th anniversary of the religion in Moldova and the year of its registration with the national government, the Baha'i community was listed in a UN report as having 6 Local Spiritual Assemblies.

[6] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying mostly on the World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 527 Baháʼís in 2005.

[15] The religion entered a new phase of activity when a message of the Universal House of Justice dated 20 October 1983 was released.

[22] The government of Moldova supported United Nations Resolution A/RES/62/168 which was adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007, on concerns raised by human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

[23] In February 2008 the Moldovan government rose in support of a declaration by the President of Slovenia on behalf of the European Union on the deteriorating situation of the Baháʼís in Iran.