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The 120,000 sq. ft. facility is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest purpose-built Shia mosque in the United States, [1] as well as the second oldest mosque in the United States after 'Asser El Jadeed which originally opened in 1924 in Michigan City, Indiana. [2] The Islamic Center of America is located at 19500 Ford Road in ...
Lebanese Shia Muslims (Arabic: المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (Arabic: متاولة, plural of متوال mutawālin; [2] pronounced as متوالي metouali or matawali in Lebanese Arabic [3]), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite ...
The Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif. Muhammad Jaunpuri shrine, Farah, Farah Province. Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine, Herat, Herat Province. Shrine of Ali Karam Allah Wajho ("the Blue Mosque"), Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa shrine, Balkh, Balkh Province. Baba Hatim Ziyarat, Imam Sahib, Kunduz Province.
Lebanon is a city in and the county seat of Boone County, Indiana, United States. [5] The population was 15,792 at the 2010 census. Lebanon is located in central Indiana, approximately 29 miles (47 km) northwest of downtown Indianapolis and 36 miles (58 km) southeast of Lafayette.
Estimates have placed the proportion of Shia Muslims in Lebanon between 27% and 45% of the population, [97] [100] 30–35% of the citizen population in Kuwait (no figures exist for the non-citizen population), [101] [102] over 20% in Turkey, [94] [103] 5–20% of the population in Pakistan, [104] [94] and 10–19% of Afghanistan's population.
Pew Research Center estimated the number of Shias in Pakistan and India to be 10 – 15 percent of the total Muslim population, while for Bangladesh it was estimated to be less than 1% [9] to 2% [10] of the total population. Andreas Rieck in his detailed study of the Shias of Pakistan, estimates their numbers between 20 and 25 million, and ...
The number of Muslims in Lebanon has been disputed for many years. There has been no official census in Lebanon since 1932. According to the CIA World Factbook, [19] the Muslim population is estimated at around 59.5% [20] within the Lebanese territory and of the 8.6 [21] –14 [22] million Lebanese diaspora is believed by some to be about 20% ...
A 2012 study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, estimated Lebanon's population to be 54% Muslim (27% Shia; 27% Sunni), 46% Christian (31.5% Maronite, 8% Greek Orthodox, 6.5% other Christian groups) [11] The CIA World Factbook estimates (2020) the following, though this data does not include Lebanon's sizable Syrian ...