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  2. Islam in Armenia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Muslim conquest of Armenia - Wikipedia

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    The Armenian acceptance of Arab rule irritated the Byzantines. Emperor Constans sent his men to Armenia in order to impose the Chalcedonian creed of Christianity. [6] He did not succeed in his doctrinal objective, but the new Armenian prefect, Hamazasp, who regarded the taxes imposed by the Muslims as too heavy, yielded to the Emperor.

  4. Blue Mosque, Yerevan - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Mosque is the only active mosque in Armenia, [22] [23] which has a small Muslim population (between 812 [24] and 1,000 or 0.03% of the total population). [ 25 ] Since restoration, it has become a religious and cultural center for the Iranians residing in Armenia and Iranian tourists visiting Armenia. [ 22 ]

  5. Baba-Hadji Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Abbas Mirza Mosque, Yerevan - Wikipedia

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    The Abbas Mirza Mosque (Armenian: Աբաս Միրզայի մզկիթ, romanized: Abas Mirzayi mzkit; Persian: مسجد عباس میرزا) was a seventeenth-century Twelver Shia Islam mosque, that was located in what is modern-day Yerevan, Armenia. Prior to the mosque's construction, a 17th-century mosque existed on the same site.

  7. Category:Islam in Armenia - Wikipedia

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    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. ...

  8. Hemshin people - Wikipedia

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    The Hemshin people (Armenian: Համշենցիներ, Hamshentsiner; Turkish: Hemşinliler), also known as Hemshinli or Hamshenis or Homshetsi, [6] [7] [8] are a bilingual [9] ethnographic group of Armenians who mostly practice Sunni Islam after their conversion from Christianity in the beginning of the 18th century [10] and are affiliated with the Hemşin and Çamlıhemşin districts in the ...

  9. Religion in Armenia - Wikipedia

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    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.