BAKU -- Baku officials ordered the closure of a Sunni mosque -- known in Azerbaijan as a Turkish mosque -- for "repairs" on April 25, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Gunduz Ismaylov, head of the ...

BAKU -- Police dispersed a group of demonstrators on September 1 protesting an Azerbaijani court ruling that allows for the demolition of the Fatimeyi Zehra Mosque in the capital. The protesters ...

Baku may have the designation of this year's "Capital of Islamic Culture," but a recent series of mosque closures and fresh requirements for registration of religious organizations has prompted ...

The problem is not with the mosques. The problem with illegal buildings in Azerbaijan, Gunduz Ismayilov, head of the State Committee for Work with Religious Associations, told Trend News on Sept. 3.

Two unknown persons doused the window of a mosque in Baku's Garachukhur settlement with flammable liquid and then broke down the door and threw a fiery bottle into the mosque, the Deputy Chairman of ...