page_title: Islam in Russia
section_title: Islam in Russia by region
hierarchical_section_title: Islam in Russia / Islam in Russia by region
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Центральная мечеть в Ижевске
context_page_description: Islam in Russia is the nation's second most widely professed religion. According to US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14,220,000 or 10% of the total population. According to a comprehensive survey in conducted in 2012, Muslims were 6.5% of the Russia's population. However, the populations of two federal subjects with Islamic majorities were not surveyed due to social unrest, which together had a population of nearly 2 million, namely Chechnya and Ingushetia, thus the total number of Muslims may be slightly larger. Among these Muslims, 6,700,000 or 4.6% of the total population of Russia were not affiliated with any Islamic schools and branches.
  Recognized under the law and by Russian political leaders as one of Russia's traditional religions, Islam is a part of Russian historical heritage, and is subsidized by the Russian government. The position of Islam as a major Russian religion, alongside Orthodox Christianity, dates from the time of Catherine the Great, who sponsored Islamic clerics and scholarship through the Orenburg Assembly.
context_section_description: Percentage of Muslims in Russia by region:
caption: Mosque in Izhevsk, Udmurtia
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