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Maps which show religious preferences of citizens throughout the country, and also contain instructions for religious sites, have been created in Georgia for the first time, Novosti-Georgia reported.

The maps were made by the Center for Religious Policy Research.

According to these data, 83.4% out of the 3.7 million people living in Georgia profess Orthodoxy. Then come Muslims with 10.74%, parishioners of the Armenian Apostolic Church are in the third place with 2.94%, followers of the Catholic Church in Georgia are 0.52%, 0.33% in the country are Jehovah's Witnesses, Yezidis - 0.23%,  Jews - 0.04%. About 1.8% of the population are in the column of “others”.

In total, three maps were made: regional, district and map of religious buildings.

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