People Group Prayer Guides
Pray for the Adjari
A large proportion of Adjaria, the southwestern-most republic of the country of Georgia, is inhabited by ethnic Georgians who accepted Islam several hundred years ago. They speak a dialect of Georgian heavily influenced by the Turkish language.
Numbering approximately 300,000 people, the Adjari (pronounced "ad-JAR-ii") are Sunni Muslims. Although they were given separate status as an autonomous area in the former Soviet Union in 1922, large numbers of Adjaris were deported to Central Asia in the late 1920s. Recognition of Adjari people as a separate ethnic group was officially withdrawn by the former Soviet Union. There are significant differences between Adjarians and Georgians, and the status of autonomous republic has been retained to this day.
The Adjari people today have no access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.