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Demographic Facts

Mosques in the United States: 1,209
American Muslims associated with a mosque: 2 million
Increase in number of mosques since 1994: 25 percent
Proportion of mosques founded since 1980: 62 percent
Average number of Muslims associated with each mosque in the United States: 1,625
U.S. mosque participants who are converts: 30 percent
American Muslims who "strongly agree" that they should participate in American institutions and the political process: 70 percent
U.S. mosques attended by a single ethnic group: 7 percent
U.S. mosques that have some Asian, African-American, and Arab members: nearly 90 percent
Ethnic origins of regular participants in U.S. mosques:

    South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Afghani) = 33 percent
    African-America = 30 percent
    Arab = 25 percent
    Sub-Saharan African = 3.4 percent
    European (Bosnian, Tartar, Kosovar, etc.) = 2.1 percent
    White American = 1.6 percent
    Southeast Asian ( Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino) = 1.3 percent
    Caribbean = 1.2 percent
    Turkish = 1.1 percent
    Iranian = 0.7 percent
    Hispanic/Latino = 0.6 percent

U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah: more than 90 percent
U.S. mosques that feel the Koran should be interpreted with consideration of its purposes and modern circumstances: 71 percent
U.S. mosques that provide some assistance to the needy: nearly 70 percent
U.S. mosques with a full-time school: more than 20 percent

The information above was drawn from the "Mosque in America: A National Portrait," a survey released in April 2001. It is part of larger study of American congregations called "Faith Communities Today," coordinated by Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religious Research in Connecticut. Muslim organizations cosponsoring the survey are the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Ministry of Imam W. Deen Muhammed, and the Islamic Circle of North America. The report is available on the Internet at: http://www.cair-net.org/mosquereport/

Charts:
from Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Ethnicity of Muslims

Increase in Number of Mosque Participants

Muslim Participation in American Society

Number of Mosques Founded