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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.
Growth rate: 0.43% (2024 est.) ... City 305.1 – 560.2 405.8 ... In the late 1930s Soviet authorities deported most of the Kurdish population of Azerbaijan to ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Nearly 96 percent of the population is Muslim, out of which 65% is Shia and 35% is Sunni. The remaining four percent of the population consists of atheists, Armenian Apostolics, Baha’is, Catholics, Georgian Orthodox, members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Molokans, Protestants, and Russian ...
Azerbaijan, [a] officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, [b] is a transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. [10] It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south.
The population of what is nowadays Iran and what is nowadays Azerbaijan were converted to Shia Islam at the same moment [clarification needed] in history. [9] [page needed] As elsewhere in the Muslim world, the two branches of Islam came into conflict in Azerbaijan. [8]
After the occupation of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the socialism began in Northern Azerbaijan on April 28, 1920. In 1926, 1937 and 1939, the percentage of Azerbaijanis among the population was reduced from 62.1% in 1926 to 58.2% in 1937. The number of Armenians has increased, and the percentage of it remained the same in the total population.
At that time mosques were being destroyed - thus, by 1933 only 33 mosques were functioning. In 1967 the Museum of the History of Atheism was created, which after the collapse of the USSR was renamed the State Museum of the History of Religion. [15] The population of Azerbaijan due to persecution and the threat of life had to hide its religious ...