Editing Shoghi Effendi (section)

===Administration===
One of Shoghi Effendi’s main objectives on becoming Guardian was to organise the administrative work of the  [[Baháʼí World Centre]], with an initial focus on sustaining correspondence with a growing number of Baháʼís throughout the world. This involved the need for secretarial assistance which in the early years came from his father and two Persian Baháʼís who had served as secretaries to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. Between late 1924 and 1927 he received assistance initially from [[John Esslemont|Dr John Esslemont]], and following his untimely death a year later, from Ethel Rosenberg, both of them Baháʼís from the UK. He was also assisted in this work by several members of his family. In an attempt to reduce his correspondence, Shoghi Effendi encouraged Baháʼí communities to publish and distribute newsletters to other communities, the newsletter generated from Haifa including news from the Baháʼí World Centre and Baháʼí activities around the world, thus alleviating the need for Baháʼís to send him letters asking for information. As an extension of the Baháʼí World Centre he established a Baháʼí Bureau in [[Geneva]], representing the community at international forums and meetings as well as international organisations which had their headquarters in Geneva. 

During the early years of his guardianship Shoghi Effendi focused on the formation and nurturing of national and local Spiritual Assemblies by way of encouraging the spread of the Faith and as a prerequisite for the election of the Universal House of Justice. National bodies were elected according to ʻAbdu'l-Bahá’s instructions and using procedures set down by Shoghi Effendi, who took on responsibility for defining the requirements for their election, detailing their authority, outlining and evaluating rules for their functioning, and managing the application of these criteria in various situations and social conditions. The first three national spiritual assemblies were established at Shoghi Effendi’s instruction in Great Britain, India and Germany in 1923.{{sfn|Stockman|2022|pp=108–109}}

In1951 Shoghi Effendi began expanding international Baháʼí  institutions, appointing twelve [[Hands of the Cause]] as stipulated as one of his responsibilities by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in his will. In the same year he established the [[International Baháʼí Council]], a secretariat and advisory body whose members were initially appointed and subsequently elected, and which increasingly took on responsibility for communicating with the community and interacting with the government of Israel. In 1952 he appointed seven further Hands of the Cause, adding another eight in 1957. In 1954 he asked the Hands of the Cause to appoint 36 people to serve on five continental Auxiliary Boards in order to assist them in their work. The purpose in forming these international institutions appeared to be the provision of support in carrying out expansion goals for the [[Ten Year Crusade]] in conjunction with preparation for the election of the [[Universal House of Justice]].{{sfn|Stockman|2022|pp=|p=114}} 

Shoghi Effendi was instrumental in developing the  [[Baháʼí World Centre]], initially buying the mansion at Bahji, near Akko (formerly Acre), in which Baha’u’llah lived until he passed away in 1892, where the [[Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh]] is situated, and around which he purchased extra land and created extensive gardens. He supervised the construction of the  golden-domed building over the [[Shrine of the Báb]], developed the surrounding land and erected the [[International Archives]] building in the vicinity. He also endorsed plans involving the establishment of a centre which was to evolve into a network of buildings, landscaped gardens and shrines, and which was to be recognised by Baháʼís worldwide as the centre of the Baháʼíi Faith.{{sfn|Hartz|2009|pp=|p=84}} 

In 1937 Shoghi Effendi instructed the [[National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States|National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States and Canada]] to complete the exterior of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, as one of the goals of their Seven Year Plan.{{sfn|Stockman|2022|pp=|p=573}} This was finally completed in 1943, with the temple’s dedication taking place in May 1953.{{sfn|Smith|2000|pp=|p=236}} On 23 August 1955 Shoghi Effendi announced that Africa would build its first House of Worship, to be situated in Kampala, Uganda; the temple was dedicated in January 1961.{{sfn|Stockman|2022|pp=|p=573}}