There are an estimated 1,500 mosques in Britain. They range enormously in design and scale, and illustrate the diversity of Britain's Muslim population. Fewer than twenty per cent of Britain's mosques are purpose-built - the majority are converted houses or other adapted buildings.
Every religion has a holy building of its own, and Muslims like to build their own buildings to worship Allah. There are thousands of British Muslims born and bred in this country. They give generously to help the poor, and also to build local mosques. Praying together is easier than praying on your own.
Post-war Muslim immigration to Britain predominantly brought workers to supply labour to industries across the country. Muslim communities, therefore, emerged in the inner-cities of towns and cities and it is here that Muslim social and religious institutions were subsequently established.
Thus, this city is home to over 400 mosques. In this blog, we will particularly list the most popular London mosques.
According to the latest 2021 United Kingdom census, 3,801,186 Muslims live in England, or 6.7% of the population. The Muslim population again grew by over a million compared to the previous census.
Other religions are growing but continue to make up a small proportion of the population. Hinduism has grown by 55.3 per cent to 684,002 people, or 2.7 per cent of the population. Islam has grown to 813,392 people, which is 3.2 per cent of the Australian population.
Germany's 5.5 million Muslims are often exposed to everyday, structural racism, report finds. BERLIN (AP) — Racism, hatred and sometimes violence against Muslims in Germany are widespread and often part of their everyday experience, according to a new report presented at the interior ministry in Berlin on Thursday.
Estimates range from 2,350 to 2,750. According to a study by the German Islam Conference, 24% of the 5.5 million Muslims living in Germany visited these mosques at least once a week in 2019.
In of 2014 there were 39,135 mosques in China, in 2009 an estimated 25,000 of these were in Xinjiang, a north-west autonomous region, having a high density of one mosque per 500 Muslims.
The interior ministry said this month that around 100 mosques and Muslim prayer halls out of France's total number of more than 2,600 have been investigated over recent months because of suspicion that they were spreading "separatist" ideology.
The documented history of Islam in the Republic of Ireland dates back to the 1950s. The number of Muslims in the Republic of Ireland has increased since the 1990s, mostly through immigration. According to the 2022 Irish census, the number of Muslims resident in the Republic was 81,930 (1.59% of total population).
Sweden's official statistics counted 241,933 formally affiliated Muslims in 2020. The US Department of State's Sweden 2014 International Religious Freedom Report set the 2014 figure at around 6% (almost 600,000) of the total Swedish population.
Although Islam is a minority religion in Russia, Russia has the largest Muslim population in Europe. According to the US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered 14 million or roughly 10% of the total population.
According to The Jerusalem Post, in the United Kingdom and France, up to 100,000 people converted in the last decade in each country. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Germany has up to 4,000 a year. According to The Guardian, about 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year, mostly women.
But using census data on race and religion, and questionnaires issued to mosques, Kevin Brice, a researcher at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, calculated that around 5,200 Britons turn to Islam every year, and that the total number of converts is about 100,000.
Data from the 2000s for the rates of growth of Islam in Europe showed that the growing number of Muslims was due primarily to immigration and higher birth rates. In 2017, Pew projected that the Muslim population of Europe would reach a level between 7% and 14% by 2050. The projections depend on the level of migration.
A study by Tanada and his colleagues showed there were 113 mosques across Japan in March 2021, up from only 15 in 1999. The figure is based on government statistics, percentages of Muslims in the population by country and membership figures of the Association for Islamic Studies in Japan.
There are almost 3,000 mosques spread out across the United States, and while the vast majority have been built by communities since the mid- to late 20th century, mosques are not new to the American landscape.
When you think about Russian sacred architecture, onion-shaped golden domes of Orthodox churches are probably the first image to pop up in your head. However, around 20% of people living in Russia are Muslims and the country is home to over 8,000 mosques. We've made a list of the most spectacular ones.
Mosques, or masjids, in Spain are a common enough sight. There are over 1,000 modern examples scattered throughout the country today, but only a handful of these gorgeous religious buildings are truly worth their fame.
According to the latest Special Eurobarometer 493 (2019) the Muslim population in France is estimated to be 5% or 3.35 million. Pew Research Center predicts the Muslim population would rise to 8.6 million or 12.7 percent of the country in 2050.
Islam in Denmark, being the country's largest minority religion, plays a role in shaping its social and religious landscape. According to a 2020 analysis by Danish researcher Brian Arly Jacobsen, an estimated 256,000 people in Denmark — 4.4% of the population — were Muslim in January, 2020.
Islam is the second largest religion in Norway after Christianity. As of 2021, the number of Muslims living in Norway was 169,605 (3.1% of the population of 5,415,166). The majority of Muslims in Norway are Sunni, with a significant Shia minority. 55 percent of Muslims in the country live in Oslo and Akershus.
From cuisine to architecture, the southern European country has been linked to the North of Africa through many common elements. At the end of 2021, there were approximately 2.25 million Muslims in Spain, most of them of Spanish and Moroccan nationality, with upwards of eight hundred thousand believers in both cases.