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