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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.
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.
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Name Images Location Year/century G Remarks Agdam Mosque: Aghdam: 1868–1870: TS: Ajdarbey Mosque: Baku: 1912–1913: TS: Ali Mosque: Boradigah (): Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque
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The Heydar Mosque (Azerbaijani: Heydər Məscidi; Arabic: مسجد حيدر) is a mosque, located in the Binəqədi raion of Baku, in Azerbaijan. Opened on 26 December 2014, the mosque is named after Heydar Aliyev, a former President of Azerbaijan. It is the largest mosque in Azerbaijan and the Caucuses. [1]
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 Juma Mosque (Azerbaijani: Cümə məscidi), also known as the Friday Mosque, is a Shia Islam mosque, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. [1]An inscription on the mosque mentions that “Amir Sharaf al-Din Mahmud ordered the restoration of this mosque in the month of Rajab AH 709 (1309/1310)”.