Is georgia a muslim country. Islam claims the second highest number of adherents in georgia after christianity. Until then the affairs of georgias muslims had been governed from abroad by the baku based caucasus muslims department. Tbilisi in georgia soon developed into a major trade hub between the islamic world in the east and northern europe.
Skrtvl is a country in the caucasus region of eurasialocated at the crossroads of western asia and eastern europe it is bounded to the west by the black sea to the north by russia to the south by turkey and armenia and to the southeast by azerbaijanthe capital and largest city is tbilisi. The republic of georgia is an avowedly christian country but one out of every ten georgian citizens is muslim. Two years ago paksadze was elected head of a separate board of muslims of georgia which the umk reportedly sees as a bid to drive a wedge between the muslim communities of azerbaijan and georgia.
Over 10 of people in georgia are muslim so they have a higher amount of muslims than european countries and i saw halal food everywhere but i was in batumi which seemed to have more muslims and mosques. According to a 2014 census 834 of the georgian population identified themselves as eastern orthodox christian 107 muslim 39 armenian apostolic and 05 catholic. Orthodox churches serving other non georgian ethnic groups such as.
Iran azerbaijan bahrain and iraq. Most shias between 68 and 80 live in mainly four countries. The major surviving imamah muslim sects are usulism with nearly more than 10 nizari ismailism with nearly more than 1 and alevism with.
You may have experienced a language barrier although tourism staff are paid to be nice they also tend to have better english. 2008 georgia is drawn into a war in breakaway south ossetia which sees russian forces intervene and evict georgias forces from its remaining areas of control in the region as well as abkhazia. Muslims have lived peacefully in georgia for centuries a country with a majority of orthodox christians which considers itself as tolerant to all faiths but a large number of people see islam as.
The country has a total area of approximately 25900 square miles 69700 km2 and a population as of 2014 of 37 million people. Sunni and shiaof the total muslim population 8790 are sunni and 1013 are shia.