March 20. On this date in 2007, an article titled "The Bahá'ís of the Caucasus" about the revival of the Bahá'í Faith in Azerbaijan noted "that more than 80% of Baku’s Baha’is are converts, often Shiite Muslims in quest for spirituality at the moment of the break-up of the Soviet Union. The arrival of foreign missionaries, Turkish missionaries especially, facilitated the conversion of certain people, Muslim or Christian by culture, to the Baha’i faith..."

 

March 20. On this date in 2007, an article titled "The Bahá'ís of the Caucasus" about the revival of the Bahá'í Faith in Azerbaijan noted "that more than 80% of Baku’s Baha’is are converts, often Shiite Muslims in quest for spirituality at the moment of the break-up of the Soviet Union. The arrival of foreign missionaries, Turkish missionaries especially, facilitated the conversion of certain people, Muslim or Christian by culture, to the Baha’i faith..."