Islam in Fiji

Islam In Fiji

The Muslims of Fiji comprise approximately 7% of the population (62,534). The Muslim community is made up of people of Indian origin, descendents of Indentured Labourers who were brought to the islands in the late 19th century by the British colonialist rulers of the time. The majority of the Indo-Fijian community is Hindu and an estimated 16% is Muslim. There are also thought to be a few hundred indigenous Fijian Muslims, such as the well-known politician Apisai Tora, but no accurate statistical data exists in this regard.

Muslims are mostly Sunni (96.4 percent) of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, with a small Ahmadiyya minority (3.6 percent). The Ahmadi community's main house of worship is the Fazl-e-Umar Mosque in Samabula, which is the largest Ahmadi centre in the South Pacific.