Reps of non-Islamic religious communities visit Azerbaijan’s Guba

The representatives of non-Islamic religious communities and foreign guests who arrived in Azerbaijan at their invitation visited Guba on March 28.

The trip was made under the auspices of the Azerbaijani State Committee on Religious Associations, Azertag reports.

First, the guests met with representatives of the local community in the Krasnaya Sloboda settlement in Guba, where Mountain Jews live compactly, and reviewed the only historical and ethnographic museum of Mountain Jews there.

As part of the trip, the guests will visit the Gilaki and Alti Gunbaz (Six-domed) synagogues, as well as the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex in connection with the 105th anniversary of the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis in 1918.

Among the guests are Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan, as well as representatives of such religious communities as the "Apostolic Prefecture of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Azerbaijan", the Baku and Azerbaijan Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the "Azerbaijani Bible Society", "Seventh Day Adventists", the community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, "The New Apostle of Baku city", "Word of Life", "Agape", "Life-Giving Grace", "Flame", "Vineyard", the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the spiritual Christians-Molokans community and Baha'is community.