Islam in Sweden

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Swedish contact with the Muslim world dates back to the 7th–10th centuries, when the Vikings traded with Muslims during the Islamic Golden Age. Since the late 1960s, Muslim immigration from the Middle East, Balkans and Horn of Africa has impacted the demographics of religion in Sweden, and has been the main driver of the spread of Islam in the country. Islam in Sweden increased the most as a result of high refugee influxes, notably during the Yugoslav Wars and the Somali Civil War in the 1990s; the Iraq War in the 2000s; and the Syrian civil war in the 2010s. The Muslim community in Sweden hails from numerous countries, making it a complex and heterogeneous population. According to a 2019 report from the Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities, there were 200,445 Muslims in Sweden who practiced their religion regularly; this count came from those registered with Islamic congregations. The US Department of State's Sweden 2014 International Religious Freedom Report set the 2014 figure...

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