The inquiry was promoted from a muslim coalition of groups national with the institute for the Search Hartford Religion. Count of the agency, there are more of 2,100 mosques, that marks an increase of 74 percent after the last calculation, carried out a year before the terrorist attacks. The coalition also found there was a tendency between the muslim to transfer itself in the zone of residence in the suburbs and more integrated in the American life. One of the authors of such studies it is Ihsan Bagby, Islamic professor of Studies I press the university of the Kentucky. He said: "The muslim community in America cresce, healthy, vibrating, a part more of America." New York has a mosque with the greater number, 257 pieces, and the California is at the second place with 246 mosques. Even if in 2000 the larger mosques of the region northeast, the region with the highest number in 10 years then there is the south
Or add related content to this report
News Stories | Blogs | Images | Videos | Comments