Editing Yerevan (section)

==Demographics==
{| class="floatright" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%; border:1px solid #DCDCDC; background:#fafafa"
|+ {{big|'''Historical ethnic composition of Yerevan'''}}<br /><small>(excluding the [[Erivan Fortress]])</small><ref name="Karapetyan 1600-1724"/>
|-
! scope="col" style="width:70px;" | Year
! scope="col" colspan=2 style="width:110px;" | Armenians
! scope="col" colspan=2 style="width:115px;" | Azerbaijanis{{ref|Azeris|a}}
! scope="col" colspan=2 style="width:100px;" | Russians
! scope="col" colspan=2 style="width:90px;"  | Others
! scope="col" style="width:70px;"| Total
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{Circa|1650}}<ref name="Karapetyan 1600-1724"/>
|colspan=2| absolute majority
| colspan=2|—
| colspan=2|—
| colspan=2|—
| —
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | {{circa|1725}}<ref name="Karapetyan 1724-1800"/>
| colspan=2| absolute majority <!--"XVIII դարի առաջին քառորդի վերջին բուն Երևան քաղաքում բացարձակ մեծամասնություն էր կազմում հայ բնակչությունը։"-->
| colspan=2|—
| colspan=2|—
| colspan=2|—
| '''20,000'''<!-- "Այսինքն քաղաքի և այնտեղ ապաստանած շրջակա ութ հայ գյուղերի բնակչությունը միասին կազմում էին մոտ 40 հազար մարդ, որի գրեթե կեսը, ամենայն հավանականությամբ, պետք է կազմեր քաղաքի մշտական բնակչությունը։"-->
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1830<ref>{{in lang|hy}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20140504050440/http://yhm.am/2011/09/09/%D5%A5%D6%80%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%B6-%D6%84%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%AB-%D5%A2%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%B9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6-%D5%B7%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AA%D5%A8%D5%B6%D5%A9%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%A8-1824/ Երևան քաղաքի բնակչության շարժընթացը 1824–1914թթ.] [[Yerevan History Museum]]</ref>
| 4,132
| 35.7%
| 7,331
| 64.3%
| colspan=2|
| 195
| 1.7%
| '''11,463'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1831<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Korkotyan |first=Zaven |url=http://haygirk.nla.am/upload/1512-1940/1901-1940/hayastani_bnakchutyuny_1932.pdf |title=Խորհրդային Հայաստանի բնակչությունը վերջին հարյուրամյակում (1831-1931) |publisher=Pethrat |year=1932 |location=Yerevan |pages=164–167 |language=hy |trans-title=The population of Soviet Armenia in the last century (1831–1931) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202085400/http://haygirk.nla.am/upload/1512-1940/1901-1940/hayastani_bnakchutyuny_1932.pdf |archive-date=2 February 2022}}</ref>
|4,484
|37.6%
|7,331
|61.5%
| colspan="2" |
|105
|0.9%
|'''11,920'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1873<ref>{{in lang|ru}} Эривань // Географическо-статистический словарь Российской империи. Сост. по поручению Русского географического общества действ. член Общества ''П. Семёнов'', при содействии действ. члена ''В. Зверинского''. Т. V. Спб., 1885, с. 870.</ref>
| 5,900
| 50.1%
| 5,800
| 48.7%
| 150
| 1.3%
| 24
| 0.2%
| '''11,938'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1886<ref name=":0" />
|7,142
|48.5%
|7,228
|49.0%
| colspan="2" |
|368
|2.5%
|'''14,738'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1897<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=570|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|website=www.demoscope.ru|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=30 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630190605/http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=570|url-status=live}}</ref>
| 12,523
| 43.2%
| 12,359
| 42.6%
| 2,765
| 9.5%
| 1,359
| 4.7%
| '''29,006'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1908<ref name=":0" /> 
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|'''30,670'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1914<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417320 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1915 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1915 |edition=70th |publication-place=Tiflis |pages=254–257 |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1915 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104234033/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417320 |archive-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>
| 15,531
| 52.9%
| 11,496
| 39.1%
| 1,628
| 5.5%
| 711
| 2.4%
|'''29,366'''{{efn|Also appears as 29,766 in the list of populated places in the Caucasus on page 213 of the 1915 publication of the ''Caucasian Calendar''.}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1916<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1917 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1917 |edition=72nd |publication-place=Tiflis |pages=367–370 |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1917 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104233151/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417322 |archive-date=4 November 2021}}</ref>
| 37,223
| 72.6%
| 12,557
| 24.5%
| 1,059
| 2.1%
| 447
| 0.9%
| '''51,286'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1919<ref name=":0" /> 
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|'''48,000'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1922<ref name=":0" />
|40,396
|86.6%
|5,124
|11.0%
| colspan="2" |
|1,122
|2.4%
|'''46,642'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1926<ref name="ethnocacucasus">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/rnarmenia.html|title=население армении|website=www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707075417/http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/rnarmenia.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
| 59,838
| 89.2%
| 5,216
| 7.8%
| 1,401
| 2.1%
| 666
| 1%
| '''67,121'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1931<ref name=":0" />
|80,327
|90.4%
|5,620
|6.3%
| colspan="2" |
|2,957
|3.3%
|'''88,904'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1939<ref name="ethnocacucasus"/>
| 174,484
| 87.1%
| 6,569
| 3.3%
| 15,043
| 7.5%
| 4,300
| 2.1%
| '''200,396'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1959<ref name="ethnocacucasus"/>
| 473,742
| 93.0%
| 3,413
| 0.7%
| 22,572
| 4.4%
| 9,613
| 1.9%
| '''509,340'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1970<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_70.php?reg=92|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|website=www.demoscope.ru|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826122206/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/resp_nac_70.php?reg=92|url-status=live}}</ref>
| 738,045
| 95.2%
| 2,721
| 0.4%
| 21,802
| 2.8%
| 12,460
| 1.6%
| '''775,028'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1979<ref name="ethnocacucasus"/>
| 974,126
| 95.8%
| 2,341
| 0.2%
| 26,141
| 2.6%
| 14,681
| 1.4%
| '''1,017,289'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 1989<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_lan_89_ar.php|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|website=www.demoscope.ru|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=12 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912114438/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng_nac_lan_89_ar.php|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118160411/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|archive-date=18 January 2012|website=www.demoscope.ru|access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref>
| 1,100,372
| 96.5%
| 897
| 0.0%
| 22,216
| 2.0%
| 17,507
| 1.5%
| '''1,201,539'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2001<ref>[http://www.armstat.am/file/doc/86.pdf Yerevan city: Ethnic Structure of De Jure Population] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019195258/http://www.armstat.am/file/doc/86.pdf |date=19 October 2016 }} National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia</ref>
| 1,088,389
| 98.6%
| colspan=2|—
| 6,684
| 0.61%
| 8,415
| 0.76%
| '''1,103,488'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2011<ref>[http://armstat.am/file/doc/99483738.pdf Demographics of Yerevan 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528011813/http://armstat.am/file/doc/99483738.pdf |date=28 May 2014 }} National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia 2011</ref>
| 1,048,940
| 98.9%
| colspan=2|—
| 4,940
| 0.5%
| 6,258
| 0.6%
| '''1,060,138'''
|-
| colspan=10 | {{note|Azeris|a|Called ''Tatars'' prior to 1918}}
|}

{{historical populations|1897|29006|1926|62180|1939|200396|1959|509340|1970|775028|1979|1025959|1989|1201539|2001|1103488|2011|1060138|2022|1086677|align=right|cols=1|source=<ref>{{cite web|title=(USSR) Urban population of the union republics, and their territorial units|url=https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Population Census |website= Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia|url=https://armstat.am/en/?nid=743}}</ref>}}Originally a small town, Yerevan became the capital of Armenia and a large city with over one million inhabitants.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the majority of the population of Yerevan were Armenians with minorities of [[Russians]], [[Kurds]], [[Azerbaijanis]] and Iranians present as well. However, with the breakout of the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]] from 1988 to 1994, the Azerbaijani minority diminished in the country in what was part of population exchanges between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A big part of the Russian minority also fled the country during the 1990s economic crisis in the country.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} Today, the population of Yerevan is overwhelmingly Armenian.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, due to economic crises, thousands fled Armenia, mostly to Russia, North America and Europe. The population of Yerevan fell from 1,250,000 in 1989<ref name="Azatian"/> to 1,103,488 in 2001<ref>2001 Census : [http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/15.pdf ArmStat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070502/http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/15.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }}.</ref> and to 1,091,235 in 2003.<ref name="ArmStat 2003">{{cite web|url=http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/12.pdf|title=ArmStat, 2003 Census|access-date=21 March 2008|archive-date=10 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910034121/http://docs.armstat.am/census/pdfs/12.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the population of Yerevan has been increasing since. In 2007, the capital had 1,107,800 inhabitants.

Yerevantsis in general use the [[Yerevan dialect]], an [[Eastern Armenian]] dialect most probably formed during the 13th century. It is currently spoken in and around Yerevan, including the towns of [[Vagharshapat]] and [[Ashtarak]]. [[Classical Armenian]] (''Grabar'') words compose a significant part of the dialect's vocabulary.<ref name="Markossian">{{cite journal|last=Markossian|first=Razmik|title=Արարատյան բարբառ (Araratian dialect)|year=1989|page=390|url=http://lraber.asj-oa.am/3544/|access-date=13 March 2013|publisher=Luys|location=Yerevan|language=hy|journal=|archive-date=23 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923151052/http://lraber.asj-oa.am/3544/|url-status=live}}</ref> Throughout the history, it was influenced by several languages, especially [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[loan word]]s have significant presence in it today. It is currently the most widespread Armenian dialect.<ref name="Baghdassarian-Tapaltsian">{{cite journal|last=Baghdassarian-Tapaltsian|first=S. H.|script-title=hy:Արարատյան և Բայազետի բարբառների փոխհարաբերությունները|trans-title=Relationship between Araratian and Bayazet dialects|journal=[[Patma-Banasirakan Handes]]|year=1971|issue=4|pages=217–234|url=https://arar.sci.am/dlibra/publication/193292/edition/175633/content|access-date=16 March 2013|publisher=[[Armenian National Academy of Sciences]]|location=Yerevan|language=hy|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714213843/http://hpj.asj-oa.am/1744/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Ethnic groups===
[[File:St. Nikolai.png|thumb|[[Saint Nikolai Cathedral, Yerevan|Saint Nikolai Russian Cathedral]], destroyed in 1931]]

Yerevan was inhabited first by Armenians and remained homogeneous until the 15th century.<ref name="Karapetyan 1600-1724"/><ref name="Karapetyan 1724-1800">{{in lang|hy}} M. Karapetyan, ''[https://arar.sci.am/dlibra/publication/191253/edition/173714/content Բնակչության էթնիկ կազմը և էթնիկ պրոցեսները Երևանում 1724–1800 թվականներին (Ethnic composition of the population of Yerevan and ethnographic processes in Yerevan from 1724 to 1800)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928123133/http://hpj.asj-oa.am/4699/ |date=28 September 2018 }}'', ''[[Patma-Banasirakan Handes]]'', 1987, Yerevan, [[Armenian National Academy of Sciences]], {{ISSN|0135-0536}}</ref><ref name=worldhistory>{{cite book | last = Ramirez-Faria | first = Carlos | title = Concise Encyclopaedia of World History | year = 2007 | publisher = Atlantic | isbn = 978-81-269-0775-5 | pages = 42–44 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gGKsS-9h4BYC | access-date = 29 October 2015 | archive-date = 30 October 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151030012536/https://books.google.com/books?id=gGKsS-9h4BYC | url-status = live }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2018}} The population of the [[Erivan Fortress]], founded in the 1580s, was mainly composed of Muslim soldiers, estimated two to three thousand.<ref name="Karapetyan 1600-1724">{{in lang|hy}} M. Karapetyan (1986) "[https://arar.sci.am/dlibra/publication/191080/edition/173552/content The Dynamics of the Number and Ethnic Structure of the Population of Yerevan in 1600–1724] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928122212/http://hpj.asj-oa.am/4534/ |date=28 September 2018 }}" ''[[Patma-Banasirakan Handes]]''. pp. 95–109. {{ISSN|0135-0536}}</ref> The city itself was mainly populated by Armenians. French traveler [[Jean-Baptiste Tavernier]], who visited Yerevan possibly up to six times between 1631 and 1668, states that the city is exclusively populated by Armenians.<ref name="Tavernier">Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste. ''Les six voyages en Turquie, en Perse et aux Indes, Volume 1'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=J3xJAAAAcAAJ&dq=Comme+Erivan+n%27est+habite+que+par+des+Armeniens&pg=PA623 623] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912090026/https://books.google.com/books?id=J3xJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA623&dq=Comme+Erivan+n%27est+habite+que+par+des+Armeniens&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T9YjUrPZNaepsQTF9ICQDA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Comme%20Erivan%20n'est%20habite%20que%20par%20des%20Armeniens&f=false |date=12 September 2020 }}</ref> Although much of the Armenian population of the city was deported during the 17th century,<ref name="v8f5"/> the city remained Armenian-majority during the [[Ottoman–Hotaki War (1722–1727)]].<ref name="Karapetyan 1724-1800"/> The demographics of the region changed because of a series of wars between the Ottoman Empire, Iran and Russia. In the early 19th century Yerevan had a Muslim majority, mainly with an Armenian and "Caucasian Tatar" population.{{sfn|Bournoutian|1980|page=13}}<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=570 1897 Census, Erivan City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502151332/http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=570 |date=2 May 2019 }} ''Demoscope Weekly''</ref> According to the traveler [[H. F. B. Lynch]], the city was about 50% Armenian and 50% Muslim ([[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijanis]] and Persians) in the early 1890s.{{sfn|Kettenhofen|Bournoutian|Hewsen|1998|pages=542–551}}

After the [[Armenian genocide]], many refugees from what Armenians call [[Western Armenia]] (nowadays Turkey, then [[Ottoman Empire]]) escaped to Eastern Armenia. In 1919, about 75,000 Armenian refugees from the Ottoman Empire arrived in Yerevan, mostly from the [[Vaspurakan]] region (city of [[Van, Turkey|Van]] and [[Van vilayet|surroundings]]). A significant part of these refugees died of typhus and other diseases.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/republicofarmeni0000hova|title=The Republic of Armenia|first=Richard G.|last=Hovannisian|date=3 January 1971|publisher=Berkeley, University of California Press|access-date=3 January 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

From 1921 to 1936, about 42,000 ethnic Armenians from Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Greece, Syria, France, Bulgaria etc. went to Soviet Armenia, with most of them settling in Yerevan. The second wave of repatriation occurred from 1946 to 1948, when about 100,000 ethnic Armenians from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, France, United States etc. moved to Soviet Armenia, again most of whom settled in Yerevan. Thus, the ethnic makeup of Yerevan became more [[Monoethnicity|monoethnic]] during the first 3 decades in the Soviet Union. The Azerbaijani population of Yerevan, who made up 43% of the population of the city prior to the [[October Revolution]], dropped to 0.7% by 1959 and further to 0.1% by 1989, during the [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yiObBPPjXbYC&q=Language+Policy+in+the+Soviet+Union Language Policy in the Soviet Union] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527195439/https://books.google.com/books?id=yiObBPPjXbYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Language+Policy+in+the+Soviet+Union&sig=I22mQT_vcbgrfEyAy6K6MLbHwgk |date=27 May 2020 }} by Lenore A. Grenoble. Springer: 2003, p.135 {{ISBN|1-4020-1298-5}}</ref>

There is an [[Indian people|Indian]] population in Armenia, with over 22,000 residents recorded in the country. Much of this population resides in Yerevan, where a large proportion run businesses, Indian restaurants, and study in Yerevan universities.<ref name="JamNews">{{cite web|url=https://jam-news.net/indians-in-armenia-why-theyre-coming-and-what-theyre-doing-here/|title=Indians in Armenia – why they're coming and what they're doing here|website=jam-news.net|date=21 January 2019|access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tert.am/en/news/2019/01/09/india-armenia/2890126|title=Armenia's migration authorities report unprecedented growth in Indians travelers' number|website=Tert.am|date=1 September 2019|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801205116/https://www.tert.am/en/news/2019/01/09/india-armenia/2890126|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Religion===
{{see also|List of churches in Yerevan|Religion in Armenia}}

====Armenian Apostolic Church====
[[File:Saint Peter and Paul Church, Yerevan.jpg|thumb|left|The 5th-century [[Saint Paul and Peter Church, Yerevan|Saint Paul and Peter Church]]]]

[[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian Apostolic Christianity]] is the predominant religion in Armenia. The 5th-century [[Saint Paul and Peter Church, Yerevan|Saint Paul and Peter Church]] demolished in November 1930 by the Soviets, was among the earliest churches ever built in Erebuni-Yerevan. Many of the ancient Armenian and medieval churches of the city were destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s during the [[Great Purge]].

[[File:Surb Hovanes Mkrtich Church, Kond.JPG|thumb|[[Saint John the Baptist Church, Yerevan|Saint John the Baptist Church]], consecrated in 1710]]
[[File:St.Sarqis.jpg|thumb|[[Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Yerevan|Surp Sarkis]] Church, consecrated in 1842]]

The regulating body of the Armenian Church in Yerevan is the [[Araratian Pontifical Diocese]], with the [[Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Yerevan|Surp Sarkis Cathedral]] being the seat of the diocese. It is the largest diocese of the Armenian Church and one of the oldest dioceses in the world, covering the city of Yerevan and the [[Ararat Province]] of Armenia.<ref name="araratian-tem1"/>

Yerevan is currently home to the largest Armenian church in the world, the [[Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan|Cathedral of Saint Gregory the Illuminator]]. It was consecrated in 2001, during the 1700th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Church and the adoption of Christianity as the national religion in Armenia.

As of 2017, Yerevan has 17 active Armenian churches as well as four chapels.

====Russian Orthodox Church====
[[File:Православная церковь в Ереване (2).jpg|thumb|Holy Cross Russian Orthodox Church, consecrated in 2017]]
After the capture of Yerevan by the Russians as a result of the [[Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)|Russo-Persian War of 1826–28]], many [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] churches were built in the city under the orders of the Russian commander General [[Ivan Paskevich]]. The [[Saint Nikolai Cathedral, Yerevan|Saint Nikolai Cathedral]] opened during the second half of the 19th century, was the largest Russian church in the city. The [[Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God]] was opened in 1916 in [[Kanaker-Zeytun District|Kanaker-Zeytun]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Потто|first=Василий Александрович|title=Кавказская война. Том 3. Персидская война 1826–1828 гг.|year=2000|publisher=MintRight Inc|isbn=9785425080998|page=359|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XINah2beLwC&pg=PA359}}</ref>

However, most of the churches were either closed or demolished by the Soviets during the 1930s. The Saint Nikolai Cathedral was entirely destroyed in 1931, while the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God was closed and converted first into a warehouse and later into a club for the military personnel. Religious services resumed in the church in 1991, and in 2004 a cupola and a belfry were added to the building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mospat.ru/en/2010/03/17/news14638/ |title=Russian Orthodox Church, External Church Relations Official Website:Patriarch Kirill visits a Russian church in Yerevan |publisher=Mospat.ru |date=17 March 2010 |access-date=1 May 2011 |archive-date=24 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010423/https://mospat.ru/en/2010/03/17/news14638/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010, the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Holy Cross Russian Orthodox church took place with the presence of Patriarch [[Kirill I of Moscow]]. The church was eventually consecrated on 7 October 2017, with the presence of Catholicos [[Karekin II]], Russian bishops and the church benefactor [[Ara Abramyan]].

====Other religions====
According to Ivan Chopin, there were eight mosques in Yerevan in the middle of the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chopin|first=Jean-Marie|title=Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ея присоединения к Российской Империи|year=1852|publisher=Императорская Академия Наук|page=468|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uzIpAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA468}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bournoutian|first=George A.|title=The khanate of Erevan under Qajar rule, 1795–1828|year=1992|publisher=Mazda Publishers|isbn=9780939214181|page=173|author-link=Jean-Marie Chopin}}</ref> The 18th-century [[Blue Mosque, Yerevan|Blue Mosque of Yerevan]] was restored and reopened in the 1990s, with Iranian funding,<ref>{{cite book|last = Kiesling|first = Brady|title = Rediscovering Armenia, 2nd edition|publisher =Matit|location= Yerevan|year = 2005|page=37 }}</ref> and is currently the only active mosque in Armenia, mainly serving Iranian [[Shia]] visitors.

Yerevan is home to tiny [[Yazidis in Armenia|Yezidi]], [[Molokan]], [[Hetanism|Neopagan]], [[Baháʼí Faith|Baháʼí]] and [[History of the Jews in Armenia|Jewish]] communities, with the Jewish community being represented by the Jewish Council of Armenia. A variety of [[Nontrinitarianism|nontrinitarian]] communities, considered dangerous sects by the Armenian Apostolic Church,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.am/eng/news/72171.html|title=Word of Life is most dangerous sect operating in Armenia – Armenian Apostolic Ch|website=news.am|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=23 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623193935/https://news.am/eng/news/72171.html|url-status=live}}</ref> are also found in the city, including [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], [[Mormons]], [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]] and [[Livets Ord|Word of Life]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.religions.am/arm/religions/ |title=Religions in Armenia |access-date=9 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208200407/http://www.religions.am/arm/religions/ |archive-date=8 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>