The Bahá'í Faith in Bahrain begins with a precursor movement, the Shaykhís coming out of Bahrain into Iran. Abu'l-Qásim Faizi and wife lived in Bahrain in the 1940s. Around 1963 the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahrain was elected in the capital of Manama. In the 1980s, many anti-Bahá'í polemics were published in local newspapers of the Bahrain. Recent estimates count some 1,000 Bahá'ís or 0.2% of the national population or alittle more by Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 1800 Bahá'ís in 2005.