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Islam is the third-largest religious group of British Indian people, after Hinduism and Sikhism. [93] 8% of UK Muslims are of Indian descent, [citation needed] principally those whose origins are in Gujarat, West Bengal, Telangana and Kerala.
The Grand Mosque of Bradford is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom.. Islam in England is the second largest religion after Christianity. [1] Most Muslims are immigrants from South Asia (in particular Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India) or descendants of immigrants from that region.
Today Islam is the second largest religion in England. About 38% of English Muslims live in London , where they make up 12.4% of the population. There are also large numbers of Muslims in Birmingham , Manchester , Bradford , Luton , Slough , Leicester and the mill towns of Northern England such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Oldham.
Islam in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly due to immigration since the 1980s. In 2011, 2.7 million Muslims (4.8% of total population) lived in the UK (mostly in England), more than quintupling over a 30-year period (550,000 in 1981), with a continued tendency of rapid growth. [1]
Religion in the United Kingdom is mainly expressed in Christianity, which dominated the land since the 7th century.Results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity is the largest religion (though makes up less than half of the population), followed by the non-religious, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
The mosque is first and foremost a place of prayer. There are estimated to be almost 2,000 mosques and Islamic prayer rooms in the UK, serving 4.1 million Muslims, or 6.3% of the UK population. About 1500 of those Mosques were located in London as of 2016.
Islam is London's second-largest religion. Muslims make up 15% of London's population. There were 1,318,755 Muslims reported in the 2021 census in the Greater London area. [1] London's first mosque was established by Mohamad Dollie in 1895, in modern-day Camden. [4] The East London Mosque is the largest Muslim centre in Central Europe.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.