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A 14-story building run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and predominantly inhabbited by Ahmadi Muslims making up 98 percent of the nearly 150 families living in the building. A hall on the first floor of the building serves as the gathering centre for the local chapter. [18] Masjid Noor-Ul-Haram: Oakville: Ontario: S Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque ...
More than half of Canadian Muslims live in Ontario, with significant populations also living in Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia. The percentage of Muslims in Canada is 4.9% as of the 2021 census. [1] [4] In the Greater Toronto Area, 10% of the population is Muslim, and in Greater Montreal, 8.7% of the population is Muslim. [5] [6] [7]
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [19] and is now named after Mount Royal, [20] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [21]
Rukia Bulle - BBC News Komla Dumor Award winner. January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM [Getty Images] ... the rhythmic chants of the Muslim worshippers dressed in patchwork garments fill the air.
The shooting took place at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City in the Ste-Foy suburb of Quebec City between 7:54 and 7:56 p.m EST on Sunday 29 January 2017 after nightly evening prayers. The shooter, 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, killed six people and injured five while firing five 10-round magazines from a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic ...
Zara Mohammed tells BBC the difficulties she faced as she ends her time as Muslim Council of Britain leader. ... Neha Gohil - BBC News. January 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM.
Born in Morocco in 1973, Charkaoui joined his sister and parents in moving to Montreal, Quebec in 1995. [3] He has been a Canadian citizen since July 2014. [4] [5]Charkaoui graduated with an MA from Université de Montréal and is an Arabic-language teacher, who now styles himself as a sheik, [6] and an imam. [7]
The 2011 Canadian census shows that 55% from Arab Canadians reported belonging to a Muslim faith and 34% reported belonging to a Christian faith. These number differ measurably from the numbers reported in the 2001 Canadian census, which showed an even split in the Arab Canadian community between those who practiced the Muslim faith with 44% and those who practiced the Christian faith 44% ...