Azerbaijan has 1,802 registered mosques, 10 churches, six Synagogues

16/6/2011

The figures were given by the chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations, Hidayat Orujov, in his report to an international conference of human rights commissioners on “Ethnic Minorities and Cultural Rights of Migrants: Legal Aspects and Implementation” in Baku today.

He said that, according to the statistics, 96% of the Azerbaijani population is Muslim, 4% Christians, Jewish or of other faiths. ligions.

The report also says that the attitude in all periods to the Jews living in Azerbaijan was univocally good: Red Village of Guba is the only residential section after Israel where the Jews live compactly. There are two synagogues in the settlement today and 7 Jewish communities were registered by the State Committee.

The report also says that the Christianity was one of the leading religions in Azerbaijan: ’11 churches, including 3 orthodox and 1 catholic churches are functioning in Baku, one orthodox and other churches in Ganja and Khacmaz’.

The report also says that the number of constructed mosques after Azerbaijan achieved independence is 595.

“594 religious organizations have been registered by the State Committee on Work with Religious Organizations till April 2009. Owing to the amendments and annexes in the relevant legislation that year, the registration of religious organizations has been started again. 512 religious communities have been registered since the amendments and annexes in the legislation”, the report says.

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