The Kingdom Project is a comprehensive development plan set out to prepare the national infrastructure of the Bahá'ís of the United States in order to welcome new believers into the Bahá'í Faith and to make available Baha'i books through retail bookstores.

It is our National Spiritual Assembly’s plan to strengthen the infrastructure and prepare the American Bahá’í Community for the dramatic growth that we are told is fast approaching. In an atmosphere charged with excitement and joy, the National Spiritual Assembly launched the first Comprehensive Development Plan for the American Bahá’í community at the 91st National Convention in April 2000.

The original financial goal of the Project was set at $60 million. In March of 2002 the National Spiritual Assembly reduced the scope of the Kingdom Project to $36 million in order to free the friends to place greater emphasis on the needs of the Bahá’í World Center Endowment Fund. Because of this reduction, some of the Project's initiatives have been postponed.  The Kingdom Project remains a vibrant and essential part of Bahá’í life and its remaining initiatives are essential for the development of our Bahá’í Community.

Initiatives include:

• The completion of the restoration work on the Mother Temple of the West, including a new Visitors Center.
• The launch of “Bahá’í Publishing” which is making Bahá’í books available in the trade market .
• The Establishment of a Temple Endowment Fund
• The renovation and improvement of Bahá'í Schools (Completed in 2002)

The Kingdom Project was a major initiative of the Five Year Plan, 2001-2006, for the Bahá’ís of the United States and continues to be of paramount importance.

The Universal House of Justice recognized this in its April 26, 2002 letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, stating: “…the demonstrated generosity of the American believers in providing material means…as in the case of the World Centre Endowment Fund and in that of the Kingdom Project at home, proves beyond any doubt the strength of their faith and the depth of their devotion to the one Source through which the ills of the world can be healed. May they continue to appreciate the spiritual priorities that such individual material sacrifices serve. The worse the conditions become, the more acute the need for such devoted acts of generosity.”

The House of Justice stressed that, “The glorious destiny so clearly forecast in the divine Texts beckons the dearly loved followers of the Blessed Beauty in your land to heights of striving yet to be attempted.” And, “...whatever of that destiny lies in their immediate possibilities at this critical time will be achieved with resounding triumph through their unceasing and unwavering endeavor.”

The Kingdom Project was designed to strengthen the physical resources of the American Bahá’í Community so that they are adequate to welcome new members into our midst, and to ensure that properties held in trust by our Assembly are maintained and preserved for future generations. It is paramount that we all examine the role that we can play in realizing its goals. Let us soar into new “heights of striving” by continuously supporting the project through prayers, pledges, activities, and sharing of information.