Editing Chechnya (section)

===Religion===
====Islam====
[[File:The Heart of Chechnya Mosque (18 May 2013).jpg|thumb|The [[Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque|"Heart of Chechnya" Mosque]] in Grozny, 2013]]
[[File:Tour of the Prophet Isa Mosque - 04.jpg|thumb|Chechnya's [[mufti]] [[Salah Mezhiev]] (right) with [[Ramzan Kadyrov]] (left) and [[President of Russia|Russian President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] (center) at the Prophet Isa Mosque in Grozny, 20 August 2024]]

[[Sunni Islam]] is the predominant religion in Chechnya, practiced by 95% of those polled in Grozny in 2010.<ref name="Roshchin">{{cite book |surname=Roshchin |given=Mikhail |surname2=Lunkin |given2=Roman |year=2005 |chapter=Ислам в Чеченской Республике |trans-chapter=Islam in the Chechen Republic |editor-surname=Bourdeaux |editor-given=Michael |editor-surname2=Filatov |editor-given2=Sergei |title=Современная религиозная жизнь России. Опыт систематического описания |trans-title=Contemporary Religious Life of Russia. Systematic description experience |place=Moscow |publisher=[[Keston Institute]]; Logos |volume=3 |pages=152–169 |language=ru |isbn=5-98704-044-2}}</ref><ref name="Caucasus Times survey 2010">{{cite web|url=https://caucasustimes.com/ru/v-chechne-nabljudaetsja-vysokaja-stepen-r/ |series=Caucasus Times poll |date=16 May 2010 |access-date=10 April 2017 |work=Caucasus Times|script-title=ru:В Чечне наблюдается высокая степень религиозной нетерпимости|language=ru|trans-title=High degree of religious intolerance observed in Chechnya}}</ref> Most of the population is Sunni and follows either the [[Shafi'i]] or the [[Hanafi]] schools of [[Fiqh|Islamic jurisprudence]].<ref>{{cite news |last=McDermott |first=Roger |url=http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3334 |title=Shafi'i and Hanafi schools of jurisprudence in Chechnya |newspaper=Jamestown |publisher=Jamestown.org |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref> The Shafi'i school of jurisprudence has a long tradition among the Chechens, and thus it remains the most practiced.<ref>{{cite book |last=Balzer |first=Marjorie Mandelstam |title=Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader |isbn=9780765629319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DEufvUyRcygC&q=Shafi+Chechens&pg=PA113|date=9 November 2009 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2372572 |title=The Kremlin's War on Islamic Education in the North Caucasus |author=Mairbek Vatchagaev |date=8 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011204749/http://jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2372572 |archive-date=11 October 2007}} Chechnya Weekly, Volume 7, Issue 34 (8 September 2006)</ref> Many Chechens are also [[Sufism|Sufis]], of either the [[Qadiri]] or [[Naqshbandi]] orders.<ref name="Roshchin" />

Following the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], there has been an [[Islamic revival]] in Chechnya, and in 2011 it was estimated that there were 465 mosques, including the [[Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque]] in Grozny accommodating 10,000 worshippers, as well 31 [[madrasas]], including an Islamic university named [[Kunta-haji]], the [[Kurchaloy Islamic Institute]] named Akhmad Kadyrov, and the Center of Islamic Medicine in Grozny, which is the largest such institution in Europe.<ref>Nazgul A. Mingisheva and Yesbossyn M. Smagulov, "Chechnya" in Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof, ''Encyclopedia of Global Religion'', Volume 1, SAGE, 2012, p. 193.</ref> A supreme Islamic administrative territorial organisation in Chechnya is the [[Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the Chechen Republic]] or the Muftiate of the Chechen Republic.<ref name="Roshchin" />

====Christianity====
{{Main|Christianity in Russia}}
{{Further|History of Chechnya#Religion|Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia#Religious implications}}
[[File:Церковь Михаила Архангела, Грозный.jpg|thumb|[[Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Grozny]]]]

From the 11th to 13th centuries (i.e. before [[Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia]]), there was a mission of [[Georgian Orthodox Church|Georgian Orthodox]] missionaries to the Nakh peoples. Their success was limited, though a couple of highland [[teip]]s [[Conversion to Christianity|did convert to Christianity]] (conversion was largely by teips). However, during the [[Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia]], these Christianized teips gradually reverted to [[Paganism]], perhaps due to the loss of [[Transcaucasia]]n contacts, as the Georgians fought the [[Mongols]] and briefly fell under their dominion.

The once-strong Russian minority in Chechnya, mostly [[Terek Cossacks]] and estimated as numbering approximately 25,000 in 2012, are predominantly [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]], although currently only one church exists in Grozny. In August 2011, Archbishop Zosima of [[Vladikavkaz]] and [[Makhachkala]] performed the first mass [[baptism]] ceremony in the history of the Chechen Republic in the [[Terek River]] of [[Naursky District]], in which 35 citizens of Naursky and Shelkovsky districts were converted to Russian Orthodoxy.<ref>Interfax Information Services Group. [http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=8678 "Chechnya saw the first mass baptism in its today's history"]. Retrieved 9 July 2012.</ref> As of 2020, there are eight [[Eastern Orthodox Christianity|Eastern Orthodox churches]] in Chechnya, the largest is the temple of the [[Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Grozny|Archangel Michael]] in Grozny.