1,775,715 [1] 4.9% of the total Canadian population (2021 census)
Regions with significant populations
Ontario
942,990
Quebec
421,710
Alberta
202,535
British Columbia
125,915
Religions
Islam
Languages
Canadian English • Canadian French Arabic• Persian • Turkish
Punjabi •
Bengali • Sindhi •
Urdu • Somali • Other languages of Canada
Islam by country
World percentage of Muslims by country
Africa
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Morocco
Western Sahara
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Réunion
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Asia
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Cyprus
East Timor
Georgia
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea
North Korea
South Korea
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen
Americas
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guiana
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Europe
Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Tatarstan
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Oceania
Australia
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cook Islands
Fiji
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Islam portal
v
t
e
Islam in Canada is a minority religion practised by approximately 5% of the population. A majority of Muslims are of immigrant backgrounds consisting a diverse range of ethnic groups. Muslims have lived in Canada since 1871 and the first mosque was established in 1938.[2] Most Canadian Muslims are Sunni, while a significant minority are Shia.
There are a number of Islamic organizations and seminaries (madrasas). Opinion polls show most Muslims feel "very proud" to be Canadians, and majority are religious and attend mosque at least once a week.[3] More than half of Canadian Muslims live in Ontario, with significant populations also living in Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia.
The percentage of Muslims in Canada is 4.9% as of the 2021 census.[1][4] In the Greater Toronto Area, 10% of the population is Muslim, and in Greater Montreal, 8.7% of the population is Muslim.[5][6][7]
^ abCite error: The named reference religion2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"The Long and Forgotten History of Muslims in Canada". The Hamilton Spectator. October 8, 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference poll was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^O’Neill, Aaron (March 9, 2023). "Religions in Canada 2011". Statista.
^Mujahid, Abdul Malik. "The Profile of Muslims In Canada". Archived from the original on February 3, 2012.
^Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Toronto [Economic region], Ontario". Government of Canada. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
^Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Montréal [Census metropolitan area], Quebec". Government of Canada. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
Shia IslaminCanada is a part of the global Shia community that continues to bond with Shias elsewhere. Shia Muslims have been a featuring segment of...
towards IslaminCanada. In 2008, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, visited the Baitun Nur Mosque, the largest mosque inCanada for its inaugural...
The history of Islamin the Arctic starts relatively late in the chronology of Islamic history, the Arctic Circle being at a great distance from traditional...
people, identifying as adherents of Islamin a 2011 census. India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims...
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the...
Shia Islam (/ˈʃiːə/) is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib (r. 656 – 661 CE) as...
Islam Ramazanovich Makhachev (Russian: Ислам Рамазанович Махачев; born 27 October 1991) is a Russian professional mixed martial artist and former sambo...
include pre-Islamic cultural traditions; secular laws, which are fully accepted inIslam so long as they do not directly contradict Islamic precepts; religious...
as well as the treatment of Jews inIslamic thought and societies throughout the history of Islam. Parts of the Islamic literary sources give mention to...
of Islam; Pakistani Canadians also participate in and contribute to the larger Islamic community, which includes Arab Canadians, Iranian Canadians, Turkish...
The demand for Islamic banking and finance has grown inCanada due to the growing Muslim population in the country who want to avoid riba and other financial...
decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Iran (Persia). Since its establishment after the 7th-century conquest, Islam has remained the state religion of...
The CanadianIslamic Congress (CIC) was a Canadian Muslim non-profit organization. The group was founded by Mohamed Elmasry of the University of Waterloo...
The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC; French: Le Conseil Suprême Islamique de Canada) is a Canadian Muslim organization based in Calgary, Alberta...
Islamic missionary work or dawah means to "invite" (in Arabic, literally "invitation") to Islam. After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, from...
Islamic schools and branches have different understandings of Islam. There are many different sects or denominations, schools of Islamic jurisprudence...
Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia, with 87% of the Indonesian population identifying themselves as Muslims, based on civil registry data in 2022...
Islamophobia inCanada refers to a set of discourses, behaviours and structures which express feelings of anxiety, fear, hostility and rejection towards Islam or...
liberal and progressive Islamic movements in North America, sorted by country. Formed in December 2001, the Muslim Canadian Congress was organized to...
Islamin Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity. Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from...
Islam is the largest and the state religion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan has over 240 Million adherents of Islam. As much as 90% of the...
fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists. Incidents and fatalities from Islamic terrorism have been concentrated in eight Muslim-majority countries...
Islam is the second-largest religion in the United Kingdom, with results from the 2011 Census giving the population as 4.4% of the total UK population...
Islam is the third largest religion in the United States (1%), behind Christianity (63%) and Judaism (2%), and equaling the shares of Buddhism and Hinduism...
attacks inCanada includes acts of terrorism, as well as mass shootings, vehicle-ramming attacks, mass stabbings, and other such acts committed inCanada that...
under Islamic law that deems homosexuality illegal. The documentary was televised internationally, including on ABC2 in Australia, CBC inCanada and in various...
Islam is the most practiced religion in Turkey. As much as 90% of the population follows the Sunni Madhab of Islam. Most Turkish Sunni Muslims belong to...
InIslam, nikah (Arabic: نِكَاح, romanized: nikāḥ) is a contract exclusively between a man and woman. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the...
Islamin Malaysia is represented by the Shafi‘i school of Sunni jurisprudence. Islam was introduced to Malaysia by traders arriving from Persia, Arabia...
Global Information
Islam
Islam portal