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According to the 1991 census recorded by Instituto Nacional de Estatística (the National Statistical Institute of Portugal), there were 9,134 Muslims in Portugal, about 0.09% of the total population. [3] The majority of Muslims in the country are Sunni, followed by approximately 20,000 to 22,000 Shia Muslims, 65% of them are Ismaili. [4]
The Ciganos were the object of fierce discrimination and persecution. [6] The number of Ciganos in Portugal is about 40,000 to 50,000 spread all over the country. [7] The majority of the Ciganos concentrate themselves in urban centers, where from the late 1990s to the 2000s, major public housing (bairros sociais) policies were targeted at them in order to promote social integration.
Aerial view of the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon. Mariana Jadaugy, a 24-year-old Portuguese citizen and caseworker [34] at the Portuguese humanitarian foundation Fundação FOCUS - Assistência Humanitária, and Farana Sahbudin Sadrudin, [35] 49, Portuguese national director of the Fundação FOCUS - Assistência Humanitária, were killed after they left their offices in the Ismaili Centre to assist ...
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Under this clause, non-EU citizens were allowed to come to Portugal without an employment contract before being able to apply for residency after making a year of social security payments.
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In the 1991 census the number of Muslims in Portugal was under 10,000. The Muslim population in 2019 is approximately 65,000 people. [24] The main Mosque in Portugal is the Lisbon Mosque. The majority of Muslims in the country are Sunnis, followed by approximately 5,000 to 7,000 Nizari Ismaili Shia Muslims.
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