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According to the 2014 Georgian Census, there were 398,677 Muslims in Georgia, down from 433,784 Muslims according to the 2004 Georgian Census. However, the share of Muslims clearly increased from 9.9 percent in 2004 to 10.7 percent in 2014. The Muslim population lives mainly in rural areas (298,668 people, or about 75% of the total population).
[1] [2] The mosque was the first majority-immigrant mosque in the city, [3] though several mosques serving African-American Muslims were present in the city at the time. [4] [5] It was established in Home Park, a neighborhood close to Georgia Tech's campus. [3] The mosque later established a cemetery, and in the 1990s they opened two schools. [6]
The ethnic Azerbaijani Muslims are mostly Shia, and live near the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The Parliament of Georgia passed a law in July 2011 to allow religious minority groups with "historic ties to Georgia" to register with the government, with a focus on Islam and four other religions.
Formed in 1994 by a group of young Muslim activists concerned about the rise in anti-Muslim discrimination, CAIR is now the biggest Muslim civil rights group in the US and includes about 33 local ...
A 2011 study, The American Mosque 2011, sponsored by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, as well as the nation's largest Islamic civic and religious groups, including the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, found that the U.S ...
Arab American and Muslim voters may play a decisive role in the outcome in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and other battleground states. These voters helped President Joe Biden defeat Trump in ...
The Baye Fall, a subgroup of Senegal's large Mouride brotherhood, are unlike any other Muslim group. They make up a tiny fraction of the 17 million population in Senegal, a mainly Muslim country ...
This is a list of mosques in Georgia. Name Images Location Year/century Remarks Ahli Bayt Shia Mosque: Tbilisi?? Akho Mosque: Akho, Adjara: 1861: Sunni: Batumi Mosque ...