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Azerbaijan registers 39 religious communities in 2018

2 August 2018 17:25 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan registers 39 religious communities in 2018

By Trend

The State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations of Azerbaijan registered 26 religious communities in July, the committee said in a message Aug. 2.

Since the beginning of the state re-registration of religious organizations (September 1, 2009), 835 religious communities have been registered in Azerbaijan.

Of this, 804 are Islamic and 31 are non-Islamic (20 Christian, 8 Jewish, 2 Bahaii and 1 Krishna) communities.

In 2018, 39 religious communities have been registered, 13 of which were registered in April and 26 in July.

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