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Religion in Russia (2024 estimate) [1][2] Russian Orthodoxy (61.8%) Other Christian (2.6%) Islam (9.5%) Other religions (1.4%) No religion (21.2%) Undeclared (3.5%) St. Basil's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow is a World Heritage Site. Orthodox Christianity is the most widely professed faith in Russia, with significant minorities of non ...
Christianity in Russia is the most widely professed religion in the country. The largest tradition is the Russian Orthodox Church. According to official sources, there are 170 eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church, 145 of which are grouped in metropolitanates. [1] There are from 500,000 to one million Old Believers, who represent an older ...
Russian revolution. Highest authority of Russian Orthodox Church in 1917, following the election of St. Tikon as Patriarch. In 1914 in Russia, there were 55,173 Russian Orthodox churches and 29,593 chapels, 112,629 priests and deacons, 550 monasteries and 475 convents with a total of 95,259 monks and nuns.
Russian icons are typically paintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be much larger. Some Russian icons were made of copper. [165] Many religious homes in Russia have icons hanging on the wall in the krasny ugol, the "red" or "beautiful" corner. There is a rich history and elaborate religious symbolism ...
Protestants in Russia constitute 1–2% (i.e. 1.5 million – 3 million adherents) of the overall population of the country. [1] Additionally there are around 15.000–20.000 Doukhobors and 40.000 Molokans in Russia, who have similarities to Protestantism. [2] By 2004, there were 4,435 registered Protestant societies representing 21% of all ...
Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe excluding Turkey. [2] According to the US Department of State in 2017, [3] Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population. One of the Grand Muftis of Russia, sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin, estimated the Muslim ...
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism are Russia's traditional religions, deemed part of Russia's "historical heritage" in a law passed in 1997. [ 202 ] Estimates of believers widely fluctuate among sources, and some reports put the number of non-believers in Russia as high as 48-67% of the population. [ 203 ]
According to Schnirelmann, it was the Soviet Union's official scientific atheism, which severely weakened the infrastructure of universalist religions, combined with anti-Westernism and the research of intellectuals into an ancient "Vedic" religion of Russia, that paved the way for the rise of Rodnovery and other modern Paganisms in Eastern ...