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Muslim girl writing her exam in Africa. Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East, during the early 7th century CE. Almost one-third of the world's Muslim population resides in Africa.
The spread of Islam in North Africa came with the expansion of Arab empire under Caliph Umar, through the Sinai Peninsula. The spread of Islam in West Africa was through Islamic traders and sailors. The religion had also began influencing Harla Kingdom in the Horn of Africa early on. Islam is the dominant religion in North Africa and the Horn ...
The article was translated from Russian article Православие в Гане, where sources for the data are stated.; Corrections came from "A Brief History of the Orthodox Church in Ghana", the U.S. Fulbright research project of Andrew J. Anderson, available at the Orthodox Research Institute website.
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The Great Mosque of Kairouan, founded in 670 AD (The year 50 according to the Islamic calendar) by the Arab general and conqueror Uqba Ibn Nafi, is the oldest mosque in western Islamic lands [41] and represents an architectural symbol of the spread of Islam in North Africa, situated in Kairouan, Tunisia.
Oriental Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Armenia (94%), and Ethiopia (44%, the total Christian population being roughly 67%). [citation needed]Oriental Orthodoxy is especially the dominant religion in the two Ethiopian regions of Amhara (82%) and Tigray (95%), as well as the chartered city of Addis Ababa (75%).
Eastern Orthodox Church bodies in Africa (1 C) E. Eastern Orthodoxy in Egypt (4 C, 1 P) Eastern Orthodoxy in Eritrea (1 P) M. Eastern Orthodoxy in Madagascar (2 P)
Indosiar broadcasts Indonesian association football matches such as BRI Liga 1, [4] and the Indonesia President's Cup. along with other world sports broadcast. Indosiar currently uses an HDTV 16:9 and SDTV 16:9 as the main aspect ratios replacing 4:3 from 30 November 2021, following an HDTV service which started in 2017.