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A small number of Muslims were resident in Armenia while it was a part of the Soviet Union, consisting mainly of Azeris and Kurds, the great majority of whom left in 1988 after the Sumgait Pogroms and the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, which caused the Armenian and Azeri communities of each country to have something of a population exchange, with ...
Azerbaijanis and Kurds living in Armenia traditionally practised Islam, but most Azerbaijanis, who were the largest minority in the country, fled during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In 2009, the Pew Research Center estimated that less than 0.1% of the population, or about 1,000 people, were Muslims.
In 1918, the First Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–20) declared independence from Russia during the Russian Civil war, but were both promptly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1920. During the Soviet era, state atheism was enforced, which resulted in all of Nagorno-Karabakh's Churches and Mosques being closed.
The Armenian sources however provide a different narrative, both in chronology and in the details of the events, although the broad thrust of the Arab campaigns is consistent with the Muslim sources. [3] The Armenian historians report that the Arabs first arrived in 642, penetrating up to the central region of Ayrarat, and sacked Dvin ...
Islam in Armenia (4 C, 2 P) J. ... Religious buildings and structures in Armenia (7 C, 2 P) Y. Yazidi religion (5 C, 11 P) Yazidis in Armenia (3 C, 6 P) Z.
Shia Islam in Armenia (2 C) Pages in category "Islam in Armenia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Islam in Armenia (4 C, 2 P) Islam in Azerbaijan (4 C, 7 P) C. ... Pages in category "Islam in the Caucasus" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The exact history and nationality of this monument is unknown. [3] The only comprehensive study of the monument by researcher and journalist Gohar Isakhanyan acknowledges the complications in researching it: “To this day’ she concludes ‘the inhabitants of Shvanidzor do not know whether Baba-Hadji is of Azerbaijani, Persian, or Turkish origin, as all local Muslims used to be called ...