Tbilisi georgia religion. Georgia was the second country in the world after armenia to adopt christianity as the official state religion in 326 ce. It is considered to be an appendage of holy virgin. Orthodox christian 83 muslim 11 armenian apostolic 3 catholic 05 other 25.
Islam in georgia was introduced in 645 ad during the reign of third caliph of islam uthmanduring this period tbilisi al tefelis grew into a center of trade between the islamic world and northern europeislams history continued in georgia throughout the late 14th and early 15th centuries with timurs invasions of georgia and during the 16th and early 19th centuries the iranians safavids. The structure of the population by religion shows the following 2014 population census. Despite centuries of foreign domination georgia has been able to preserve a unique cultural tradition that combines all the diverse elements of its population.
There have been efforts by private citizens local government. Religion in georgia roughly 80 of georgias population is christian with most belonging to the georgian orthodox church. Tbilisi formerly tiflis capital of the republic of georgia on the mtkvari river at its dissection of the trialeti trialetsky and kartli kartliysky or kartalinian rangesfounded in 458 in some sources 455 when the capital of the georgian kingdom was transferred there from mtskheta the city had a strategic position controlling the route between western and eastern transcaucasia.