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).
Migration and settlement of Muslims in Ireland began in 1952 with the arrival of the first group of Muslim students from South Africa who attended the Royal College of Surgeons, followed by other students from South Africa and various Arab countries of the Middle East who pursued their medical studies in the following ...
Demography. The number of Muslims in New Zealand according to the 2018 census is 57,276, up 24% from 46,149 in the 2013 census. The majority of New Zealand Muslims are Sunnis but there is a large number of Shias who live in New Zealand, concentrated mainly in Auckland (the largest city of New Zealand).
The Blackpitts Mosque (Irish: Mosc na gCuithí Dubha) is a mosque in Dublin, Ireland. It has a Sunni orientation.
Since now Islam is Ireland's third largest religion there are around 50 mosques and prayer centres with each province home to at least one mosque or prayer centre for both the Sunnis and the Shias.
The country's Orthodox Christian, Hindu and Muslim populations have experienced significant growth in recent years, due chiefly to immigration, with Orthodox Christianity being the fastest growing religion in Ireland.
Estimated size of the Pakistani diaspora in Ireland is over 15,000. Most Pakistanis arrived here in early 1970s as doctors. The size of Pakistan community is growing due to emigration of skilled manpower. The Pakistani diaspora in Ireland comprises first, second and third generation of Irish of Pakistani origin.
Residence. Just under half (47.3%) of all of Ireland's Muslims lived in County Dublin. Dublin City was home to the largest proportion (15.5%), followed by South Dublin (13.1%), Fingal (12.8%) and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (5.9%).
Muslims constitute 1.45% of the population in Scotland – there are 76,737 Muslims, 41,241 of them men, and 35,496 women. Scotland's Muslims make up 2.8% of all Muslims in the UK. The Muslim population of Scotland is larger than the total population of all the other non-Christian faith groups in Scotland.
According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, Muslims in England and Wales enumerated 3,868,133, or 6.5% of the population. According to recent projections the Muslim population in the UK in the year 2050 is likely to number around 13 million.
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.
Modern growth. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. In 1990, 1.1 billion people were Muslims, while in 2010, 1.6 billion people were Muslims.
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.
Half of the estimated five million French Muslims are born or naturalized French citizens. Those of Algerian origin form the largest subgroup.
Today, Scotland hosts seventy-six locations for prayer, consisting of mosques, temporary spaces for prayer, prayer rooms managed by university Islamic societies or Muslim community centres.
The settlements with large number of Muslims are Bradford, Luton, Blackburn, Birmingham, London and Dewsbury. There are also high numbers in High Wycombe, Slough, Leicester, Manchester and the mill towns of Northern England.
The next largest religious affiliation in Wales was “Muslim”, with 2.2% of the population (67,000) identifying with this affiliation in 2021. This is an increase from 1.5% (46,000) in 2011.
There were 1,318,755 Muslims reported in the 2021 census in the Greater London area. In the 2021 census Office for National Statistics, the proportion of Muslims in London had risen to 15% of the population, making Islam the second largest religion in the city after Christianity.
The number with no religion increased by 62 per cent to nearly three-quarters of a million (736,210), which represented some 14 per cent of the population. The Church of Ireland category showed little change but remained the second largest religious category with 124,749 people (2 per cent).
The 2021 census recorded around 12,000 Muslims in Northern Ireland, although actual numbers are likely to be higher. Last October, history was made with the launch of Northern Ireland's first ever Muslim Scout group for girls and boys. The 117th Belfast Islamic Centre Scout Group was set up with the help of Scouts NI..
The Muslims in Northern Ireland come from over 40 countries of origin, from Western Europe all the way through to the Far East. The Belfast Islamic Centre was established in 1978 by a group of Muslims from the local community. The centre is located near Queens University in south Belfast.
Urdu is one of the most common languages in Pakistani households, and Sydney has the largest Pakistani community in Oceania.
Population. At the end of June 2021, 95,980 Pakistani-born people were living in Australia, almost three times the number (34,150) at 30 June 2011.
There is no definitive figure of the total number of Australians with an Irish background. At the 2021 Australian census, 2,410,833 residents identified themselves as having Irish ancestry either alone or in combination with another ancestry.