Armenia
 Armenia |
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 Bahá’í Conference in Armenia, 2022.
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| Location of Armenia
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| National Assembly | Armenia | |
| Statistics: | ||
| Total Population | ||
| - | UN 2021[1] | 2,790,974 |
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| - | Bahá'í source | |
| - | Non-Bahá'í source | 1,141 |
| History: Firsts |
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| - | National Assembly | 1995 |
| Official Website | https://bahai.am/en/home | |
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| Categories: Armenia • People | ||
The Republic of Armenia is a country located in the Caucasus. Armenian is the official language and Christianity is the predominant religion.
From the 16th to 19th centuries parts of the region were ruled by the Ottoman and Persian Empires and in the 19th century it was conquered by Russia. Armenia declared independence in 1918 but was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1920 remaining part of it until becoming independent when the Union was dissolved in 1991.
A Bahá’í community was established in Armenia in the 1880s however the religion was suppressed by the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1990s preventing community development from taking place. Since 1990 the community has been able to develop and it remains active to the present day.
History[edit]
Bahá’ís settled in what is now Armenia during the lifetime of Bahá’u’lláh,[2] with a Bahá’í community being established in Yerevan in the 1880's.[3] From 1928 to 1938 the Soviet Union enacted increasingly harsh measures on the Bahá’í community ultimately banning practice of the Bahá’í Faith within the Union.[4] Despite oppression a small Bahá’í community existed within Armenia as of 1963.[5]
In 1990 the Soviet Union passed a law recognizing religious freedom and a National Spiritual Assembly of the Soviet Union was established in 1991,[6] with the Hidden Words being published in Armenian the same year.[7] By 1992 one Local Spiritual Assembly had been established in Armenia,[8] with approximately twenty Bahá’ís living in the country.[9]
The dissolution of the Soviet Union lead to the formation of a National Spiritual Assembly of Russia in 1992 which retained responsibility for administrating the Bahá’í Faith in Armenia. In 1994 the first National Teaching Conference of Armenia was held with the country having four Local Spiritual Assemblies as of that year,[9] and in 1995 Armenia was able to establish an independent National Spiritual Assembly,[6] with the country having around two hundred Bahá’ís and ten Local Spiritual Assemblies as of 1995.[9]
As of 2000 the Bahá’í community of Armenia had established the institute process within the country and was facilitating study circles with one third of the countries Bahá’ís having completed at least one study circle course by April that year.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". population.un.org. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 196. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 165. View as PDF.
- ↑ Moojan Momen, Russia, 1995, published at Bahai-Library Online, accessed 31 October 2022
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 188. View as PDF.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 189. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 211. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 213. View as PDF.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1997). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 24 (1995-1996), Pg(s) 48. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 71. View as PDF.
