Ecuador is a predominantly Christian country, with adherents of Islam representing a very small minority.[1] Due to secular nature of the Ecuador's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The Pew Research Center estimates that Ecuador has a Muslim population of about 2,000, representing 0.011% out of the total population of 16,965,000 inhabitants.
The first Muslim settlers in Ecuador were primarily Arabs who emigrated from the Middle East during World War I and thereafter from former territories of the Ottoman Empire. They settled mostly in Quito, Ambato and Guayaquil with smaller communities in Manabí, Los Ríos, and Esmeraldas provinces. Levantine Christians and Muslims created a secular ethnic organization called Lecla in the 1940s and The Arab Club in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, naturalized citizens and native Muslims of Arab extraction were using a private apartment located in Avenue Los Shyris and Eloy Alfaro as a communal prayer venue, especially on Fridays. At a later day, the Egyptian Embassy provided another private apartment for the same purposes. The Centro Islámico del Ecuador, founded on October 15, 1994, was the first Muslim religious organization recognized by the government. However, it was not the first organization to open its doors in this city. A mosque under the name Khaled ibn al-Walid was founded in the year 1991; it conducted its religious rituals in a private apartment. Religious activities as well as social, cultural, and educational activities are conducted according to Sunni Islam. The Khaled ibn al Walid mosque nowadays is run by Sheikh Mohamed Mamdouh and had opened its doors to all Muslims domiciled in Quito. Recently, Spier (2022) presented a study outlining the manifestations of Islamophobia in Quito, Ecuador.[2]
In Guayaquil, the Centro Islamico Al Hijra was established in 2004 by Juan Saud from Ecuador, Ali Said from Pakistan, and Mazhar Farooq from India.
^"Young and Muslim in Ecuador | Samia Rahman". the Guardian. 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
^Spier, Troy (2022). "Islamophobia, Ideology, and Discourse Analysis in Ecuadorian Social Media". Lenguaje. 50 (2): 322-357. doi:10.25100/lenguaje.v50i2.11867. S2CID 251163670.
Ecuador is a predominantly Christian country, with adherents of Islam representing a very small minority. Due to secular nature of the Ecuador's constitution...
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south...
2018. "Islamin the Dominican Republic". dr1.com. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018. "South America :: Ecuador — The...
of Eastern Orthodox Christians, indigenous religions, Muslims (see IslaminEcuador), Buddhists and Baháʼís. There are about 185,000 members of the Church...
America in promoting Islamic affiliated endeavors. Islamin Argentina Islamin Bolivia Islamin Brazil Islamin Chile Islamin Colombia IslaminEcuador Islam...
Rainforest. The "Islam Community of Ecuador" (Comunidad Islámica del Ecuador) is of Sunni denomination and has approximately 60 members inEcuador. It runs the...
decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Iran (Persia). Since its establishment after the 7th-century conquest, Islam has remained the state religion of...
of Eastern Orthodox Christians, indigenous religions, Muslims (see IslaminEcuador), Buddhists and Baháʼís. There are about 185,000 members of the Church...
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...
include pre-Islamic cultural traditions; secular laws, which are fully accepted inIslam so long as they do not directly contradict Islamic precepts; religious...
Anglican Christian, the British rule affected the position of Islamin Palestine. Islam was no longer the governing religion of the country, although...
Sunni Islam is a major religion in Palestine, being the religion of the majority of the Palestinian population. Muslims comprise 85% of the population...
Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia, with 87% of the Indonesian population identifying themselves as Muslims, based on civil registry data in 2022...
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...
Islam is the second-largest religion in Europe after Christianity. Although the majority of Muslim communities in Western Europe formed recently, there...
population following Sunni Islam while a small minority follow Shiite branches. There are also about 20,000 to 32,000 Druze living mostly in the north of Jordan...
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...
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...
Islamic schools and branches have different understandings of Islam. There are many different sects or denominations, schools of Islamic jurisprudence...
Islam is the majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. Various reports have estimated...
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 most widespread religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was introduced to the local population in the 15th and 16th centuries as a result...
Islam is the second largest religion in Australia. According to the 2021 Census in Australia, the combined number of people who self-identified as Muslims...
Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia, numbering approximately 240 million adherents which translate to about 42% of the entire...
Islamin France is a minority faith. Muslims are estimated to represent around 4% of the nation's population as per Statista and Le Monde, although Insee...
Islam is the state-religion in Oman. The country is 95% Muslim. Both Sunni Islam and Ibadi Islam have a following of about 45%, while 5% identify as Shia...
Hindus to Islam. Bangladesh portal Islam portal Islamin West Bengal Islamin Pakistan Islamin Myanmar Islamin India Islamin South Asia Islam by country...
Islamin Asia began in the 7th century during the lifetime of Muhammad. In 2020, the total number of Muslims in Asia was about 1.3 billion, it is 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 portal