St Joseph Church, Dushanbe
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St Joseph Church () is a parish of the
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located near Dushanbe International Airport in
Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...
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Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
. Masses in the church for the small Catholic community are held in
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follows the Roman or Latin Rite and is part of the mission ''sui juris'' of Tajikistan. In the same area there is another parish church that is dedicated to St Roch.Churches in Tajikistan: St Joseph (Dushanbe)
/ref> Parishioners are from different ethnic groups or nationalities including
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and
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. This diversity stems from the deportations in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s.


See also

* St. Joseph's Church (disambiguation) * Roman Catholicism in Tajikistan * Christianity in Tajikistan


References

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