Talk:Christianity in Azerbaijan

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Goldorack, please stop adding wildly inaccurate, long obsolete, or POV material to articles. There is no active Armenian Apostolic Church outside of Nagorno Karabakh, and there are not "around 20,000 ethnically Armenian believers" in Baku. Are you using Soviet-period sources for those claims? And Molokans are not necessarily "Russian". Meowy 16:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Meowy, I don't add any "wildly inaccurate, long obsolete or POV materials" to articles. I improve them, whilst you are engaging in POV and edit warring. Molokans are nearly all Russian, a few non-Russian Molokans are an exception to the rule. The 20,000 (or more, up to 30,000) ethnic Armenians in Baku and other large cities is according to the annual US State Department reports - it's easy to check and verify, if needed. There are several, perhaps 3 or more, Armenian churches in Baku and other large cities of Azerbaijan. Whether they are "active" or not doesn't matter, since they don't cease being part of Christian heritage if they are a museum, for example, and continue to enjoy their special status as a Christian church, a place of worship, recognized by both all the people and by the government as such. --Goldorack (talk) 10:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What do khachkars in Nakhichevan have to do with Christianity in Azerbaijan? Is there any evidence that they were destroyed (if they were at all) for religious reasons? Plus, they were just tombstones, not religious facilities or temples. Grandmaster 05:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also think that whole section should be removed unless a source is found alleging that the destruction was an anti-Christian act as opposed to an anti-Armenian act. There could be a case for a (brief) mention of the incident if it were placed into a wider context such as the destruction of monuments related to Azerbaijan's Christian heritage. There are a number of such incidents, such as the recent destruction of the Russian Cemetery in Baku, the widespread demolition of Armenian churches, the physical removal of evidence of Armenian identity from others Armenian churches for political reasons, etc. Meowy 18:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]