Mosques in U.S. Are Springing Up At a Much Higher Rate Than the Past – IOTW Report

Mosques in U.S. Are Springing Up At a Much Higher Rate Than the Past

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The number has more than doubled since 2000, up from about 1200 houses of Islamic worship to an estimated 2600 today.

The census bureau does not ask questions about religion. We can’t say if the number of mosques is growing faster than the muslim population.

According to a rough estimate from Scott Thumma with the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, there’s one mosque for every 1,562 Muslims as compared to about one Christian church for every 524 christians, but again these are rough numbers.

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