Islam in Sweden
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Islam is the largest minority religion in Sweden.
The Baltic Tatars were the first Muslim group in modern Sweden. The faith arrived in the country primarily through immigration from countries with large Muslim populations (such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Somalia and Lebanon) in the late 20th century. Most Muslims in Sweden are either immigrants or descendants of those immigrants. The majority of them are Arabs; most of them are from Iraq. The second largest Muslim group consists of immigrants or refugees from former Yugoslavia, most of them Bosnians and Kosovo Albanians. The largest non-Arab group of Muslim immigrants are Somalians; the second largest Arab group are Moroccans, but not all Muslims from Iraq or Morocco are Arabs; among them are Kurds and Berbers, too. The Moroccan republican Ahmed Rami produces his controversial Radio Islam from Sweden.
There are no official statistics of Muslims in Sweden, but estimates vary between 100,000 and 400,000, representing about 1%-4% of the total population.
The Nasir Mosque of the Ahmadiya community in Gothenburg was the first mosque to be built in Sweden, although it is not considered islamic by other Muslims. There are several mosques in Sweden with notable ones in Malmö and Stockholm. When the mosque in Uppsala was constructed it was the northernmost mosque in the world.
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- Muslims in Sweden
- Links: Islam in Western Europe: Sweden
- State Policies Towards Muslim Minorities. Sweden, Great Britain and Germany European Migration Centre
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