Society for the Restoration of Orthodox Christianity in the Caucasus
The Society for the Restoration of Orthodox Christianity in the Caucasus was an organisation in late Tsarist Russia to spread Christianity in the Caucasus after it was completely conquered by Tsarist Russia in the 19th century History As a Christian state, Tsarist Russia had already had the experience of converting the local population to Christianity, before the Russian conquest of Azerbaijan, across the states it conquered, especially, those inhabited by Moslems. From the mid-16th century, the Russian empire (under Tsar Ivan IV) aimed to pursue a foreign policy of conquering new territories and forcefully Christianizing indigenous people throughout these territories. During the invasion of the khanates of Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556), as well as Siberia, Tsarist Russia consolidated power in these occupied territories, using that exact method of Christianizing the locals and exploiting religious divisions. The policy of evangelizing the locals from the Jar-Balakan Community and the Elisu Sultanate was carried out by means of the same methods as those used for the locals across Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia. There were only two differences here: The original intent was to evangelize Ingiloys, not the entire population of the Jar-Balakan communities. The Georgian Church played the role of the Russian