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There are dozens of independent Islamic societies in Finland. The oldest one is Finnish Islamic Association which was established in 1925. It has about 700 members of whom all are Tatars. The society has mosques in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. The only building established only as mosque in Finland is Järvenpää Mosque. [citation needed] The ...
Around the time the Järvenpää mosque was built, a separate Islamic congregation was founded in Tampere by local Tatars. [4] Imam Enver Yıldırım and Finnish Tatars during a prayer service in 1989. They practice Sunni Islam. [5]
City Year G Remarks World Islamic Mission mosque Oslo: 1995 S Nur mosque: Oslo: 1980 AMJ Urtehagen mosque: Oslo: 1991 S Baitun Nasr Mosque: Oslo: 2011 AMJ Biggest mosque in Norway Inaugurated on 30 September 2011 Al Nor mosque: Tromsø: U World's northernmost mosque
[4] [5] Further studies indicate the worldwide spread and percentage growth of Islam, may be attributed to high birth rates followed by a trend of worldwide adoption and conversion to Islam. [3] [6] Most Muslims fall under either of two main branches: Sunni (87–90%, roughly 1.7 billion people) [7] Shia (10–13%, roughly 180–230 million ...
Finland is a predominantly Christian nation where 63.6% of the Finnish population of 5.6 million are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland , 33.6% are unaffiliated, 1.0% are Orthodox Christians, 0.9% are other Christians and 0.9% follow other religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, folk religion etc. [1] These ...
The Noor Islamic Cultural Center recently purchased a 220,000-square-foot office building near their mosque. Stakeholders include, from left, Taj Mohammed, Rubi Taj, Atif Syed, Atifa and Imran ...
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