Armenia is considered as one of the oldest Christian countries in the world. But is not entirely clear, what kind of religion Armenians professed in pre-Christian period until the year 301. According to some researchers it was Zoroastrianism, which was a state religion in the neighboring Persian empire at that time. However, due to the shortcomings of sources to talk about the Armenian pre-Christian religions as about Zoroastrianism and equating it with Persian Zoroastrianism is still very contentious. Based on the analysis of some Armenian written record seems to be better to speak about local polytheism in this case. Nevertheless, due to very close contacts between Armenia and Persia Armenian polytheism was deeply influenced by Zoroastrianism.