Editing Tehran (section)

=== Religion ===
{{See also|Religion in Iran|List of religious centers in Tehran}}
The majority of Tehranis are officially [[Twelver Shia]] [[Muslims]], which has also been the state religion since the 16th-century [[Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam|Safavid conversion]]. Other religious communities in the city include followers of the [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] and [[Sufism|Mystic]] branches of Islam, various Christian denominations, Judaism, [[Zoroastrianism]], and the [[Baháʼí Faith]].

In the 2016 "Tehran Survey", when residents of Tehran were asked about the importance of religion in their life, 53.5% considered it to be "very important / important", 31.1% to be "rather important", 10.5% to be "not very important" and 4.8% to be "not at all important."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Asadzade |first=Peyman |date=28 February 2019 |title=Faith or Ideology? Religiosity, Political Islam, and Anti-Americanism in Iran |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogy038 |journal=[[Journal of Global Security Studies]] |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=545–559 (see Figure 2) |doi=10.1093/jogss/ogy038 |issn=2057-3170 }}</ref>

There are many religious centres scattered around the city, from old to newly built centres, including [[List of religious centers in Tehran#Mosques and madrasehs|mosques]], [[List of religious centers in Tehran#Churches|churches]], [[List of religious centers in Tehran#Synagogues|synagogues]], and [[List of religious centers in Tehran#Fire temples|Zoroastrian fire temples]]. The city also has a very small third-generation Indian [[Sikh]] community with a local [[gurdwara]] that was visited by the Indian Prime Minister, [[Manmohan Singh]] in 2012.<ref name="Indian Prime Minister in Tehran">{{cite web |last=Lakshman |first=Nikhil |title=Indian Prime Minister in Tehran |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-how-to-organise-a-summit-the-iranian-way/20120830.htm |website=Rediff.com |access-date=3 September 2012 |archive-date=3 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903043924/http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-how-to-organise-a-summit-the-iranian-way/20120830.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>