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According to article #4.1.7 of the "State Youth Program of Azerbaijan" (2005-2009), it is planned to create a "Youth house" network of social services institution. Youth Houses in Binagadi, Khazar, Garadagh, Sabunchu, Surakhani districts have been built and given to use concurring to the relevant passages of the Action Plan of the State Program ...
Final Communique of the 9th Session of The Islamic Summit Conference Doha, Qatar (12-13 November 2000) [11] Resolution no. 25/9-c (is) on the destruction and desecration of Islamic historical and cultural relics and shrines in the occupied Azeri territories resulting from the republic of Armenia's aggression against the Republic of Azerbaijan [12]
The ministry is headed by the minister aided by two deputy ministers. Main functions of the ministry are education and training of younger generation in accordance with national strategy of youth development in social, economic and cultural life of the country; education of the youth with universal and national values; ensuring social, moral and healthy physical development of the youth ...
Islam arrived in Azerbaijan with Arabs in the seventh century, gradually supplanting Christianity and pagan cults. [ 8 ] In the sixteenth century, the first shah of the Safavid Dynasty, Ismail I (r. 1501-1524), established Shi'a Islam as the state religion, [ 8 ] although a portion of people remained Sunni.
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The Bibi-Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. Islam is the majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. [5] Estimates include 90% (The World Factbook, 2020) [6] and 99.2% (Pew Research Center, 2006) [7] of the population identifying as Muslim.
The majority of the population in Azerbaijan is Muslim, mainly Shia. According to Michigan State University political scientist Ani Sarkissian, "the Azerbaijani government attempts to control religious practice to keep it from becoming an independent social force that might threaten the nondemocratic nature of the regime."
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