Christianity in Azerbaijan

[citation needed] Adherents of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Azerbaijan are mainly ethnic Russians and Georgians.

Before the outbreak of the war, Armenians formed the largest Christian population in the country.

[5] During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, despite the constitutional guarantees against religious discrimination, numerous acts of vandalism against the Armenian Apostolic Church were reported throughout Azerbaijan.

[6] At the height of the Baku pogrom in 1990, the Armenian Church of St. Gregory Illuminator was set on fire,[7] but was restored in 2004 and is currently used as library.

Elnur Jabiyev, the former general secretary of the Baptist Union in Azerbaijan, up to 2010, there were eight or nine evangelical churches in Baku but these have now been prevented from openly meeting together by the authorities.