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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 97.3% (The World Factbook, 2020) [6] and 99.2% (Pew Research Center, 2006) [7] of the population identifying as Muslim.
Islam is the majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. [2] Various reports have estimated 97.3% (CIA, 2020) [ 3 ] or 99.2% (Pew Research Center, 2006) [ 4 ] of the population identifying as Muslim; with the majority being adherents of the Shia branch (55-65%), while a significant ...
Today, Armenian churches in Azerbaijan remain closed, because of the massacres of Armenians in the 1990s and generally being banned from entering Azerbaijan. [5] During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War , despite the constitutional guarantees against religious discrimination, numerous acts of vandalism against the Armenian Apostolic Church were ...
Freedom of religion. Freedom of religion in Azerbaijan is substantially curtailed. [1][2] The Azerbaijan government, which follows a strictly secular and anti-religious ideology, represses all religions. [1] The majority of the population in Azerbaijan is Muslim, mainly Shia. According to Michigan State University political scientist Ani ...
Eastern Orthodoxy in Azerbaijan is the main Christian and the second largest religious group in the Republic of Azerbaijan (after Islam). [1][2][3] According to statistics, the Eastern Orthodox, or Byzantine tradition in Azerbaijan is 2.3% (209.7 thousand people). The territory of Azerbaijan is in the jurisdiction [4] of the Baku-Azerbaijan ...
Clerics that act in ways objectionable to the state face dismissal and arrest. [2] The government does not restrict religious conversion, but it does forbid proselytizing. [2] Azerbaijan is often considered the most secularized Muslim-majority nation. [3]
Irreligion in Azerbaijan is open to interpretation according to differing censuses and polls. [1] Although Shia Islam is the predominant faith in Azerbaijan, religious affiliation is nominal in Azerbaijan and percentages for actual practicing adherents are much lower. It is difficult to quantify the number of atheists or agnostics in Azerbaijan ...
The Catholic Church in Azerbaijan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are about 570 [1] local Catholics in the country as of 2016. Azerbaijan is covered entirely by a single Apostolic Prefecture – Apostolic Prefecture of Baku – since 2011. The community is served by seven ...