The formation and sociocultural appearance of the church of evangelical Christians-Baptists in the JAO

The article is devoted to the formation of the sociocultural image of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in the JAO. On the basis of archival documents of the SAKT, the author's field diary and the current archive of the ECB Church, the formation of the ECB Church in the region and the formation of its sociocultural image were reconstructed using the example of two large cities of the region - Birobidzhan and Obluchye. The research methodology is based on an approach to the study of the sociocultural image of Pitirim Sorokin. A hypothesis is put forward about the significant influence of the specifics of the region on the formation of the sociocultural image of the ECB Church, the formation of its characteristic features and developmental features.