Places of Worship
Several mosques have been built in Sweden since the 1980s, with notable ones in Malmö (1984) and Stockholm (2000). The Bellevue Mosque and the Brandbergen Mosque in the 2000s came to public attention as recruitment and propaganda centers for Islamist terrorism.
The following are some of the places of Islamic worship that can be found today in Sweden (See also the list of mosques in Sweden):
| Name | Municipality | Year | Organization | Sect | Imam | Worship language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm | ||||||
| Stockholm Mosque | Stockholm, Medborgarplatsen | 2000 | Islamiska Förbundet i Stockholm | Sunni | Abu Mahmoud | Arabic, Swedish |
| Bangladesh Jame Masjid | 23 Kocksgatan, Medborgarplatsen Stockholm | Sunni Hanafi Wahhabi | Bengali, Arabic | |||
| Fittja Mosque | Stockholm, Fittja | 2007 | Botkyrka Turkiska Islamiska Förening | Sunni (Hanafi) | Arabic, Turkish | |
| Brandbergen Mosque | Haninge (South Stockholm) | Haninge Islamiskt Kultur Center | Karim Laallam | Arabic | ||
| Imam Ali Mosque | Järfälla (West Stockholm) | Ahl Al Bayt Assembly | Shi'ite | Arabic, Persian | ||
| Northern Sweden | ||||||
| Umeå Mosque | Umeå, Ålidhem | to be built | ||||
| Central Sweden | ||||||
| Uppsala | Uppsala, Kvarngärdet | 1995 | Sunni | |||
| Örebro | Örebro, Vivalla | 2008 | ||||
| Southern Sweden | ||||||
| Bellevue Mosque | Gothenburg, Bellevue | Islamic Sunni Centre | Wahhabi | |||
| Musalla as-Salam | Gothenburg, Bellevue | Sunni (Shafi'i) | ||||
| Turkish Mosque 1 | Gothenburg, Hisingen | Sunni (Hanafi) | ||||
| Turkish Mosque 2 | Gothenburg, Hisingen | Sunni (Hanafi) | ||||
| Masjid Guraba | Gothenburg, Hisingen | Sunni | ||||
| Bosnian Mosque | Gothenburg, Hisingen | General | ||||
| Nasir Mosque | Gothenburg, Högsbo | 1976 | Ahmadiyya | Urdu, Swedish | ||
| Malmö Mosque | Malmö | 1984 | ||||
| Trollhättan Mosque | Trollhättan | 1985 | Shi'ite | |||
Read more about this topic: Islam In Sweden
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