He stressed his followers to be self sufficient and at its height the movement gathered about 30,000 followers.
As of 2011, it was reported that the Bahá'í community comprised about 8,000 followers.
By 1930, Rowan's separatist movement was bankrupt and had about two hundred followers.
There is about 6,000 followers in Pristina alone.
In 1925 he had about 120-150 thousand followers.
He has over 1,300 friends on Facebook and about 21,000 followers on Twitter.
Today about 20,000 followers held a subdued rally for him in Jakarta.
Estanislao was the alcalde of the community before he left the mission with about 400 followers in 1827.
By 1938, there were claimed to be about a million followers in the United States.
He then began to arm about seventy followers, refusing all recruits from outside his own district.