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There are four Armenian Protestant churches in Canada, two in Montreal and one in Toronto and Cambridge. One in Montreal and the church in Toronto are affiliated with the Armenian Evangelical Church, while the other two are affiliated with the United Church of Canada, [45] but are "autonomous and have services in the Armenian vernacular language."
According to the Canadian Census of 1971 there were 33,000 Muslims in Canada. [13] In the 1970s large-scale non-European immigration to Canada began. This was reflected in the growth of the Muslim community in Canada. In 1981, the Census listed 98,000 Muslims. [14] The 1991 Census indicated 253,265 Muslims. [15]
Sunni Islam is followed by the majority while there are significant numbers of Shia Muslims. Ahmadiyya also has a significant proportion with more than 25,000 Ahmadis living in Canada. [154] There are also non-denominational Muslims. [155] As of the 2021 census, the percentage of Muslims in Canada is 4.9%. [156]
Muslim Armenians may refer to: Hidden Armenians , Christian Armenians of Turkey and their descendants who became Islamized and Turkified or Kurdified to escape the Armenian genocide Hemshin people , an ethnic group of Armenian origin who were originally Christian but were Islamized during the Ottoman Empire
Individuals from the Middle East first arrived in Canada in 1882, when a group of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants settled in Montreal. [3] Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine were ruled by the Ottoman Empire at that time. As a result, early Arabic immigrants from these countries were referred to as either Turks or Syrians by Canadian authorities.
T. B. Irving – (1914–2002), was a Canadian-American Muslim author, known for producing the first American English translation of the Qur'an Shabir Ally – Guyanese-born Canadian Islamic Scholar, President of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto
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 ...
He is a poet, novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of many academic studies on Armenian diaspora literature. He is the author of 30 books. Shirinian is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the Royal Military College of Canada.