History
Many Muslims were among the wave of internal migrants from other Yugoslav republics who gravitated to Slovenia during the 1960s and 70s. A permit for the construction of a mosque was first requested in 1969, but was not granted; the effort was revived during the 1990s. In the 2002 census, 2.4% of the population of Slovenia (47,000 people) were listed as Muslim, the second largest faith community after Roman Catholics.
Along with Athens, Ljubljana had been one of only a few European capitals without a mosque, though there has (since 1989) been a small one in the town of Jesenice.
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