page_title: Church of Caucasian Albania
hierarchical_section_title: Church of Caucasian Albania
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Fragment wyremontowanej świątyni w Nidż, Azerbejdżan
context_page_description: The Church of Albania or the Albanian Apostolic Church was an ancient, briefly independent, autocephalous church. It later fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church that existed from the 5th century to 1830 and was centered in Caucasian Albania, a region spanning present-day northern Azerbaijan and southern Dagestan. It was one of the earliest national Christian churches.
  In the early 8th century, the church tried to embrace Chalcedonianism, but this attempt was foiled by the rest of the Armenian Church with the help of the Arabs.
  In medieval times, the monastery of Gandzasar served as the See of the Catholicosate of Aghvank of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which continued to exist until 1828 when it was formally abolished by the Russian authorities, following the forced cession of the last territories in the Caucasus maintained under Iranian Qajar rule per the Treaty of Turkmenchay and the Russo-Persian War.
context_section_description: The Church of Albania or the Albanian Apostolic Church was an ancient, briefly independent, autocephalous church. It later fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church that existed from the 5th century to 1830 and was centered in Caucasian Albania, a region spanning present-day northern Azerbaijan and southern Dagestan. It was one of the earliest national Christian churches.
  In the early 8th century, the church tried to embrace Chalcedonianism, but this attempt was foiled by the rest of the Armenian Church with the help of the Arabs.
  In medieval times, the monastery of Gandzasar served as the See of the Catholicosate of Aghvank of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which continued to exist until 1828 (or 1836) when it was formally abolished by the Russian authorities, following the forced cession of the last territories in the Caucasus maintained under Iranian Qajar rule per the Treaty of Turkmenchay and the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828).
caption: Detail from the Udi`s church in Nij village.
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