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Islam in Fiji (Fiji Hindi: فجی میں اسلام (Perso-Arabic script); फ़िजी में इस्लाम (Devanagari script)) is the third largest religion. There are about 60,000 Muslims in Fiji. [1] [2] Muslims in Fiji are mostly Sunni Muslim with a Shia and Ahmadiyya minority. [3]
Hinduism and Islam arrived with the importation of large numbers of people from South Asia, most of them indentured, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Fiji has many public holidays as it acknowledges the special days held by the various belief systems, such as Easter and Christmas for the Christians, Diwali for the Hindus and the Eid al-Adha ...
Fiji Hindi; Bahasa Indonesia; ... Islamic organizations based in Fiji (2 P) M. Mosques in Fiji (2 P) Fijian Muslims (1 C, 39 P) Pages in category "Islam in Fiji"
The majority of Indo-Fijians came from northern, northern eastern and southeastern part of India and converse in what is known as Fiji Hindi (also known as 'Fiji Baat'), this language has been constructed from eastern Hindi dialects mixed with some native Fijian and some English loan words, [32] with some minorities speaking Gujarati, and ...
Maunatul Islam Association of Fiji (MIAF) represents approximately 30% of the Sunni Muslims in Fiji who are mostly followers of Imam Shafi. The followers of Imam Shafi in Fiji are the descendants of Muslims of Malayalam origin who came to Fiji under the indenture system from Kerala (Malabar) in South India between 1903 and 1916. The ...
The current building, Fiji's largest mosque, is a three storey building, completed in 2019, that caters for 4,000 worshippers. [2] It is known for its arched doors and white marble structure. [3] The former president of the Fiji Muslim League, Musa Vali Suleman Patel, served as imam of the mosque for nearly 30 years.
Fiji has three official languages under the 1997 constitution (and not revoked by the 2013 Constitution): English, Fijian (iTaukei), and Hindi. (Fiji Hindi is a variety of Hindi common in Fiji.) Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 350,000 native speakers, and another 200,000 speak it as a ...
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