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[18] [19] In 2009, the Pew Research Center estimated that less than 0.1% of the population, or about 1,000 people, were Muslims. [citation needed] The 18th century Blue Mosque is open for Friday prayers. Throughout history, Armenians did not convert to Islam in large numbers despite long periods of Muslim rule.
The community remains small but has been growing since 2022 thanks to the influx of Russian immigrants following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which included a number of Russian-Israelis previously residing in Russia, and increasing yerida from Israel related to the 2023 judicial reform and the Israel–Hamas war.
[72] According to a 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center, in Armenia 82% of respondents say it is very or somewhat important to be a Christian to be truly Armenian. [73] According to a 2015 survey 79% of people in Armenia trust it, while 12% neither trust it nor distrust it, and 8% distrust the church. [74]
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 ...
The Christianization of Armenia is regarded as one of the most important events in Armenian history, significantly shaping the people's identity, and turning Armenia away from its centuries-long links to the Iranian world. Additionally, the Armenian Church is considered to have provided a structure for the preservation of Armenian identity in ...
Christians in Bahrain number 205,000 people. In the 5th century, Bahrain was a center of Nestorian Christianity, including two of its bishoprics. [88] The ecclesiastical province covering Bahrain was known as Bet Qatraye. [89] Samahij was the seat of bishops. Bahrain was a center of Nestorian Christianity until al-Bahrain adopted Islam in 629 ...
Armeno-Tats of Madrasa and Kilvar referred to their language as p'arseren ("Persian"), while Armeno-Tat migrants to the North Caucasus and Astrakhan called it keghetseren ("village talk") [7] and used it within their own community as an in-group language. [11] Armenian researcher Armen Hakobian identifies the eighteenth century as the time when ...
According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2014, 75% of Israelis were Jewish by religion (adherents of Judaism), 17.5% were Muslims, 2% Christian, 1.6% Druze and the remaining 3.9% (including immigrants) were not classified by religion.