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The main Arab Muslim communities in the UK live in the Greater London area, with smaller numbers living in Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham. There are also sizable and very long-established communities of Muslim Yemenis in the United Kingdom in among other places Cardiff and the South Shields area near Newcastle.
People of Bangladeshi descent are one of the largest Muslim communities (after Pakistanis), 16.8% of Muslims in England and Wales are of Bangladeshi descent, the ethnic group in the UK with the largest proportion of people following a single religion, being 92% Muslim. [73]
The majority of Somalis, in the UK and elsewhere, are Muslims. [109] [110] The majority adhere to the Sunni branch of Islam and the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence. [111] According to the 2011 UK census, 94,197 or roughly 93% of Somalia-born residents in England and Wales are Muslim. They constitute one of the largest Muslim groups in ...
The largest age-bracket within the British Muslim population were those under the age of 4, at 301,000 in September 2008. [160] The Muslim Council of Britain and the Islamic Forum of Europe are the umbrellas organisations for many local, regional and specialist Islamic organisations in the United Kingdom, although it is disputed how ...
Shia Muslims pray near Marble Arch during the 41st Arbaeen Procession in London, 2021. Following waves of immigration over the previous decades, London now has one of the most diverse array of Muslim communities in the world. London's Muslims are geographically dispersed with settlements principally shaped by earlier patterns of immigration.
– Survation contacted 750 adult members of Muslim communities in the UK online or by phone between September 30 and October 14. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
Relations between Jewish and Muslim communities in the UK are “fragile and fractured”, a leading imam has said 12 months into the war in Gaza which has seen thousands killed.
Yemenis in the United Kingdom or Yemeni Britons include citizens and non-citizen immigrants in the United Kingdom of Yemeni ancestry, as well as their descendants. Yemenis have been present in the UK since at least the 1860s, with the first Yemenis arriving as sailors and dock workers in the port cities of Northern England and Wales, and despite a smaller population than other British Muslim ...