Hinduism in Azerbaijan

One of the remnants of once-dominant Hindu and Buddhist culture in the Caucasus is Surakhani, the site of the Ateshgah of Baku.

[2] In the Middle Ages, Hindu traders visited present-day Azerbaijan for Silk Road trade.

The area was traversed by Hindu traders coming mostly from Multan and Sindh (in present-day Pakistan).

[4] In the 1880s, the Czar Alexander III of Russia went to Azerbaijan to witness one of the last Hindu ceremonies performed there.

Religious books of Hare Krishna or of other faiths are frequently seized by the State Customs Committee from travellers entering Azerbaijan through land or sea borders.