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Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. [2] According to the US Department of State in 2017, [3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
According to the Russian Analytical Centre for Sociology of Interethnic and Regional Relations (ISPI), the proportion of believers of the two largest religions in Russia remained stable between 1993 and 2000; Orthodox Christianity fluctuated between 46% in 1993, over 50% in the mid-1990s, and 49% in 2000, while Islam fluctuated between 7% in ...
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During this time, Islam was the country's second-largest religion; 90% of Muslims in the Soviet Union were adherents of Sunni Islam, with only around 10% adhering to Shia Islam. Excluding the Azerbaijan SSR, which had a Shia-majority population, all of the Muslim-majority Union Republics had Sunni-majority populations. [1]
Rank Federal district HDI (2019) [1] Very high human development 1 Moscow 0.940 2 Saint Petersburg 0.918 3 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug 0.914 4 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
The Council of Muftis of Russia was founded on July 2, 1996 in Moscow at a meeting of muftis convened by the chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Central European Region of Russia Ravil Gainutdin, elected chairman of the new association.
The Saint Petersburg Mosque (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргская мече́ть), when opened in 1913, was the largest mosque in Europe outside Turkey.The mosque is situated in downtown St Petersburg.
"Scarlet Sails" celebration in Saint Petersburg Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical location and its vast expanse, religious and social traditions, and both Eastern [1] (Its influence on the formation of Russian culture is negligible, mainly it was formed ...