The Baháʼí Faith in Wales started shortly after the Second World War when a great pioneer movement began with sixty percent of the British Baháʼí community eventually relocating.
The first Baháʼí resident in Wales was Rose Jones who married and moved to Cardiff from London in 1942.
In 1961 Pontypridd formed the first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly composed entirely of native Welsh.
[5] The 2005 UK-wide conference of the National Convention of the Baháʼís of the United Kingdom was held in Wales.
In 2007 there were registered communities in:[7] Abercarn, Caerphilly, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Chepstow, Conwy, Llanelli Rural, Llanelli Town, Maesteg, Mold, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Vale of Glamorgan.