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Islam in America, by the Numbers

Islam, while still a small minority religion in the United States, has grown significantly in the past 30 years. There are currently 2,769 mosques in the country, up from 1,209 in 2000. Islam will be a threat to the country if we do not deal with mass immigration today.

2,769

mosques in 2020, up from 2,106 in 2010 and 1,209 in 2000

3.45M

Muslims in the US (Pew, 2017 - the most recent published count)

58%

of Muslim adults are foreign-born

56%

of US mosques in 2020 did not exist in 2000

The historical record of Muslim communities predates the national mosque surveys shown below. The first documented mosque was set up in 1915, 139 years after the country's founding, when Albanian immigrants opened one in Biddeford, Maine. A second followed among Syrian and Lebanese homesteaders in Ross, North Dakota. And for the next fifty years that was roughly the scale of it: a handful of buildings serving a few thousand families in mill towns and farm counties.

The first period of large Muslim growth in the United States was not due to immigration but instead due to conversions, as the Nation of Islam became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. During the Civil Rights era, many disenfranchised and disillusioned Black men decided that Christianity was the religion of the people who had enslaved them, and that a separate Black nation with its own faith was the answer. The movement had perhaps 5,000 members in the 1950s. Estimates of its height a decade later run from about 20,000 members by the early 1960s to 500,000 at the peak of Malcolm X's recruiting. This increase was short-lived, with Nation of Islam today a group of ~35,000 members.

Immigration is one contributor to the growth of the Muslim population; births, deaths and religious switching also affect its size. The Immigration Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler) started this increase (slowly), while the Immigration Act of 1990 (increasing annual immigration inflows to ~1 million) has sped Muslim migration up considerably.

We can see this rise of Islam in two ways. First, the Muslim population grew from an estimated 2.35 million in 2007 to 3.45 million in 2017 in the published estimates used here. Additionally, the number of mosques in the country has more than doubled in a single generation. There were 1,209 mosques in 2000 and 2,769 in 2020 - a net increase of 1,560, equal to about 56% of the 2020 total.

Increases in population and mosques

The chart separates published mosque counts from population estimates. The all-age population estimates shown are 2.35 million in 2007 and 3.45 million in 2017; the mosque count more than doubled between 2000 and 2020 alone. Mosque counts are survey counts (solid); Pew's population figures are estimates (dashed), because the census does not ask religion.

Each series as a share of its latest level (%)

MosquesMuslim share of population

Sources 1, 2, 4, 5

Mosques by state (2020)

Toggle between the raw count and mosques per million residents. Alaska and Hawaii are off the map frame.

Mosques (2020)

< 1010–2425–4950–99100+

Sources 1, 3

What this count covers

The map uses the US Mosque Survey’s 2020 benchmark and 2020 Census populations. Enumeration took place in 2019; interviews described pre-pandemic conditions. This is not a 2026 count. The survey includes congregations with regular prayer and other activities, with provisions for some Shia institutions. It excludes prayer-only facilities and several movements, including Ismaili and Ahmadiyya organizations.

An institution called an Islamic center may meet the mosque definition; the name alone does not establish a separate category. The survey reports 2,769, while ARDA’s 2020 table reports 2,771. That discrepancy remains unresolved; this map consistently uses the survey’s state table.

Most mosques

1New York343
2California304
3Texas224
4Florida157
5New Jersey141
6Illinois128
7Michigan127
8Pennsylvania112

New mosque construction

The national mosque survey recorded 1,209 mosques in 2000, 2,106 in 2010, and 2,769 in 2020. That is an increase of 1,560 mosques in two decades. Since the 2020 count, we have separately documented 54 selected projects reported as completed, approved, or under construction and 23 more reported as proposed or contested. This is not a complete national inventory. Approvals, relocations and expansions do not necessarily add an operating congregation; these projects are not added to the 2020 total.

Net change in surveyed mosque counts (2000–2020)

2000–2010+897

2010–2020+663

Sources 1, 2

Under construction right now (54)

No agency tracks mosque construction, so the national pace never shows up as a single number. The individual projects do. They are large, expensive, and permanent, and they cluster in the metros that absorbed the most immigration. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

Islamic Association of Greater Detroit
Rochester Hills, MI (Detroit)
A $20 million complex in suburban Detroit, opened March 2024 and billed by its own organizers as the largest mosque in the country.
Ismaili Center Houston
Houston, TX
A 150,000-square-foot complex on an 11-acre campus, four years in the building, opened November 2025.
Islamic Institute of America (Al-Hasnain Mosque)
Dearborn Heights, MI (Detroit)
A large new mosque, school, and community complex in suburban Detroit with a prayer hall for more than 1,000, opened in 2026.
Bronx Muslim Center
Van Nest, Bronx, NY (New York City)
A four-floor, 32,000-square-foot building, roughly ten times the size of the center it replaces and billed as the future largest mosque in New York State. Due to open by the end of 2026.
NYC Muslim Center
Hollis, Queens, NY (New York City)
An expansion to roughly 60,000 square feet, promoted by the center as the largest Islamic center in New York City. Under construction.
Islamic Center of Melville
Melville, NY (Long Island)
A new 45,000-square-foot facility, a mosque for 600 plus a full-time school, reported roughly 97% complete.
Muslims on Long Island
Bethpage, NY (Long Island)
A mosque expansion cleared through a $3.95 million settlement with the Town of Oyster Bay in 2025, backed by the US Justice Department.
Islamic Center of Naperville
Naperville, IL (Chicago)
A 28,400-square-foot mosque, the first phase of a planned 13-acre campus that will later add a school, hall, and gym. Completed December 2024.
Bridgeview Mosque Foundation Community Center
Bridgeview, IL (Chicago)
A $20.1 million, 53,677-square-foot center that broke ground in October 2025, one of the largest the Mosque Foundation has built.
Islamic Center of Quad Cities
Frisco, TX (Dallas)
A 43,575-square-foot, two-story facility with a 24,000-square-foot mosque, gym, and clinic on 5.7 acres, valued around $12 million. Construction began July 2024.
Dar Alnoor Islamic Community Center
Prince William County, VA (Washington DC)
An expansion from 12,000 to roughly 80,000 square feet with a banquet hall, K-8 school, and youth and senior centers. Broke ground April 2026.
Muslim Community of Folsom
Folsom, CA (Sacramento)
A 90,000-square-foot center on 10 acres with a prayer hall for more than 1,000 and a K-12 school, replacing a 16,000-square-foot building. In phased construction.
Muslim Association of Puget Sound (VIBE campus)
Redmond, WA (Seattle)
A 146,000-square-foot campus on 7.6 acres, three times the current facility, being converted into the largest Islamic center in Washington.
Nueces Mosque
Austin, TX
A six-story, 77,000-square-foot rebuild with a prayer hall, seminary, and student housing, roughly $11 million, with construction expected to start in late 2026.
Pillars Mosque
Charlotte, NC
A $9 million, 30,000-square-foot expansion, under construction and due to open in 2026.
Islamic Association of Cary
Cary, NC (Raleigh)
A multi-story mosque described as one of the largest in North Carolina, nearing completion.
Islamic Center of Orlando (Jama Masjid)
Orlando, FL
A 23,000-square-foot hall seating roughly 3,000, nearly triple the size of the building it replaced. The first of several planned phases opened in early 2025.
Lake Nona Masjid
Osceola County, FL (Orlando)
A 35,100-square-foot complex with a mosque, gym, and daycare on 4.3 acres; the site plan was filed with the county in 2025.
Islamic Center of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg, VA
A roughly $4.8 million expansion adding capacity for 750-plus worshippers, with grading underway in 2025.
Adam Community Center
Troy, MI (Detroit)
Troy's first mosque, opened in 2022 after a multi-year federal fight in which the Justice Department sued the city over its zoning denial.
Islamic Society of Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO
A $7.3 million first phase of 14,680 square feet, designed to grow to 25,300. Moving through permitting in early 2026.
Masjid Khadeejah (South Denver Islamic Center)
Englewood, CO (Denver)
A $6 million project described as South Denver's first purpose-built mosque in forty years, which broke ground in November 2024.
Masjid Zakariya (Islamic Center of Fremont)
Fremont, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
A 28,000-square-foot expansion, under construction since November 2024.
Woodland Mosque and Islamic Center
Woodland, CA (Sacramento)
A 16,206-square-foot mosque with a three-story minaret and blue dome, reported nearly complete in 2024.
Masjid Istiqlal
Sugar Land, TX (Houston)
A new purpose-built mosque serving roughly 600 congregants, under construction since late 2022.
IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico
Houston, TX
A 10,200-square-foot, $3 million center on 2.5 acres, soft-opened in 2023 with interior work ongoing.
Masjid Al-Islam
South Dallas, TX
An 18,000-square-foot mosque with more than 1,000 prayer spots, a gym, and classrooms, roughly $3 million, under construction to replace a 1979 building.
Muslim Community Mosque
Phoenix, AZ
A new prayer hall built for more than 1,500 worshippers, under construction.
Islamic Center of the East Valley
Chandler, AZ (Phoenix)
A three-story, 10,000-square-foot mosque nearing completion after years of delays.
Mariam Center (La Porte Islamic Center)
La Porte, TX (Houston)
A five-acre campus designed to hold up to 1,000 worshippers, under construction in the Houston metro.
American Momin Park
Springfield, MO
A 5.5-acre campus with a mosque, school, and cemetery; mosque construction began in 2022, with a roughly $2.8 million first phase.
Hedaya School & Islamic Center
Overland Park, KS (Kansas City)
Under construction, with the frame and siding up and a final $1 million being raised to enclose the building.
Islamic Society of the Northwest Suburbs
Rolling Meadows, IL (Chicago)
A new mosque that broke ground in 2022, about four years after a contested city council zoning vote.
Noor Islamic Cultural Center (Dublin campus)
Dublin, OH (Columbus)
A new campus where daily prayers began in early 2024.
Al-Ahad Islamic Center
South Whitehall Township, PA (Allentown)
A new mosque roughly double the size of the old one, with completion targeted for 2026.
Islamic Society of New Hampshire
Manchester, NH
A 13,000-square-foot, three-level domed building nearing completion after decades of delays.
Reading's first mosque
Reading, MA (Boston)
The town's first Islamic institution, a converted former Rite Aid, opened in spring 2025.
MAS Salaam Center
Braintree, MA (Boston)
A new center on Boston's South Shore that opened in September 2025.
Islamic Center of Frankfort
Frankfort, KY
An 8,500-square-foot mosque on a 2.5-acre campus that broke ground in 2024 and opened in 2026.
Al Huda Islamic Center of Athens
Athens, GA
A 10,500-square-foot, three-story mosque with county-approved site plans, fundraising for construction.
Loganville Islamic Center
Loganville, GA (Atlanta)
A roughly 20,000-square-foot mosque under construction in the Atlanta metro.
New Africa (Islamic Center for Human Excellence)
Little Rock, AR
A roughly six-acre faith-based community with two prayer halls, an education building, a clinic, and up to 22 homes, advancing since 2020.
Islamic Society of New River Valley
Blacksburg, VA
A new mosque and multi-purpose center, with exterior work targeted for 2025 and interior for 2026.
Masjid Bilal
Los Angeles, CA
A new mosque completed in December 2023, with an adjoining community center still to be finished.
Islamic Society of Milwaukee (Franklin)
Franklin, WI (Milwaukee)
A campus bought in 2024 for a new school, athletic facility, and prayer hall.
Jamia Masjid Chicago
Chicago, IL
The original building demolished and a new purpose-built mosque under construction on the site.
Rawdah Islamic Center
near Newark, DE
A two-story mosque replacing a former ice-cream shop, under construction as of 2024.
Islamic Society of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
A 78-foot free-standing minaret, described as the only such tower in Maryland, under construction in 2024.
DeSoto Islamic Center (Abraham House of God)
Horn Lake, MS (Memphis)
A 10,000-square-foot mosque on 13 acres, cleared to build after the congregation won a federal court fight over the town's initial denial.
Abu Huraira Islamic Center
Canton, MI (Detroit)
A new mosque established in late 2025 to serve Canton and the surrounding suburbs.
Nur-Ul-Islam
Cooper City, FL (Fort Lauderdale)
A new three-story mosque and school with three minarets, one over 100 feet, working through county and city approvals.
Zainabiya Center
Maryland Heights, MO (Greater St. Louis)
Broke ground in February 2023 on a donated 4.7-acre site, still under construction.
Islamic Foundation of Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
A new mosque building under construction, with fundraising underway to finish the interior.
Islamic Society of Fargo-Moorhead
Fargo, ND
An expansion adding a spire and a youth activity area, targeted for completion in 2026.

Proposed and contested (23)

Larger projects still on the drawing board, several denied or under active legal challenge. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

EPIC City
near Josephine, TX (Dallas)
A 400-plus-acre master-planned development promoted as an “epicenter of Islam in North America.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed multiple lawsuits and opened investigations, and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) asked the US Justice Department to open a civil-rights probe in April 2025. Proposed and stalled amid the legal fight.
Madinah Lakes
Lino Lakes, MN (Twin Cities)
A 156-acre Muslim-oriented development with 400-plus homes, businesses, and a mosque. The city imposed a development moratorium; the developer sued alleging bias, and a federal judge declined to lift it.
Noor Islamic Center (Britton Parkway)
Hilliard, OH (Columbus)
A bid to convert a 226,000-square-foot former corporate building and 15 acres into a religious and community center. The city council denied the rezoning, prompting a federal lawsuit.
Broken Arrow mosque
Broken Arrow, OK (Tulsa)
A 23,000-square-foot mosque on 15 acres with a clinic and food pantry. The planning commission approved the rezoning, but the city council rejected it 4-1 in January 2026 after a hearing that drew more than 1,000 residents.
Karmel Mall expansion
Minneapolis, MN
A roughly $40 million expansion of a Somali shopping mall that would add a women's mosque and more prayer space. A state appeals court upheld the city's authority to restrict it.
Sayreville mosque
Sayreville, NJ
A proposed mosque of roughly 25,000 square feet, denied by the planning board in 2025 after eight hearings. The applicant filed a federal discrimination lawsuit.
Marlboro Township mosque
Marlboro, NJ
A 13,127-square-foot mosque denied after six hearings over two years. A judge ordered rehearings.
Albuquerque Islamic Center (North Valley)
Albuquerque, NM
A 45,000-square-foot mosque on 2.5 acres. County officials denied a neighborhood appeal after a nearly five-hour hearing, letting it proceed with conditions. Fundraising for construction.
Lodi Township mosque
Washtenaw County, MI (Ann Arbor)
A place of worship whose zoning request the township denied in 2024, drawing a federal lawsuit.
Islamic Center of Kansas
Overland Park, KS (Kansas City)
A proposed campus with a mosque, community center, school, and daycare, which won preliminary planning-commission approval.
Muslim Society of Delaware Valley
Feasterville, PA (Philadelphia)
A proposal to convert a 20,000-square-foot commercial building into a mosque and school. The application was withdrawn in December 2025 after opposition.
Stamford East Side Mosque
Stamford, CT
A conversion of a former social club that cleared a first major zoning hurdle in late 2025.
Islamic Community Center of South Charlotte
Fort Mill, SC (Charlotte)
A large-capacity mosque planned on the center's current soccer field, in the planning stage.
Islamic Center of Hamden
Hamden, CT (New Haven)
A roughly three-acre site where the basement level is complete and in use while fundraising continues for the full mosque.
West Ocean City mosque
West Ocean City, MD
A 4.1-acre site bought for $650,000 in 2024 for a two-story mosque, awaiting a final county permit.
Islamic Society of the Desert
Rancho Mirage, CA (Palm Springs)
A restaurant conversion approved by the planning commission in October 2025, sited between a church and a Jewish federation.
Islamic Society of Vermont
South Burlington, VT
A new mosque in the planning and renovation phase after the society secured a site.
Islamic Society of Delaware
Middletown, DE
The state's largest Muslim organization planning a new Middletown location.
Maryam Masjid and Islamic Community Center
Spokane, WA
A plan to buy a 10-acre parcel north of the temporary location for a new community center.
Al-Zahra Islamic Center
Salt Lake City, UT
A planned new mosque with fundraising targeted for 2026.
Islamic Center of Federal Way
Federal Way, WA (Seattle)
A congregation that outgrew its Kent location and is finalizing a move to a larger site.
IPRAY House
Wayne, NJ (New York City)
A proposed two-story, 20,000-square-foot center with a 35-foot dome and two 50-foot minarets on a 10-acre plot, pending township review.
Imam al-Asr Masjid
Fairfax County, VA (Washington DC)
A new mosque and community center that has won zoning approval but has not broken ground.

Who is coming in

The Muslim population today sits at around 3.45 million, about 1.1% of the country. 58% of Muslim adults were born abroad. Among those born abroad the largest origins are Pakistan at 15%, Iran at 11% and India at 7%, with Afghanistan and Bangladesh at 6% each. Grouped by region, Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa supply 41% of foreign-born US Muslims and South Asia 26%.

Ethnicity of regular mosque participants

Pakistan, India, Bangladesh33%

Arab (Mideast & N. Africa)27%

African American24%

Sub-Saharan African9%

Other7%

Source 2

Where this goes

In 2017, Pew estimated that there were 3.45 million Muslims in the United States and projected that by 2050 the number would more than double to 8.1 million by 2050 (2.1% of total population).

Nine years later, the Muslim population is estimated to be around 4.35 million. If Muslim immigration completely stopped today, natural population growth (with Muslims at 2.5 children per woman) would bring the total to 5.4 million by 2050. However, if Muslim immigration reached the levels that countries like France or England experienced over the past 20 years, the United States' Muslim population would reach between 8.1 and 25 million.

Population scenarios to 2050

Million residents

Pew historical estimatesIf Muslim immigration completely stoppedAt an 80% cut in admissionsPew’s 2050 projectionAt France's rate of increase

2050 scenario	Population	US share
If Muslim immigration completely stopped	5.4m	1.4%
At an 80% cut in admissions	5.9m	1.5%
Pew’s 2050 projection	8.1m	2.1%
At France's rate of increase	25m	6.5%

Sources 5, 12, 18

The integration problem (US and overseas)

Historically, Muslims do not co-exist with other groups. The religion has been around for ~1,200 years and has tried to create a world caliphate for its entire history. While Muslim countries have not been powerful since the haydays of the Ottoman Empire, Western nations are once again seeing Islam as a threat due to recent mass immigration trends.

At its core, when you bring a group of people with fervent religious beliefs (whether they are violent or not upon arrival) into a country that is vastly different - whether it is a secular country or a country with a different religion - there are going to be integration issues. This would be the same way in reverse - if you imported tens of thousands of devout French Catholics into a country like Morocco or Algeria, the native population would clash with the new immigrants.

Muslims view Christianity and other religions (e.g. Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism) as blasphemous. While this idea of blasphemy might be a non-issue when Islam represents a small percentage of the total population, it becomes a problem when these numbers are inflated. Muslims, through their religious texts, are told to take control of all land and all people by any means necessary, and violence is a perfectly reasonable method to achieve this. It's the reason why Muslim immigration to the West and assimilation don't go together. The objective for Muslims arriving to the West is to stay true to their faith and grow Islamic expansion - assimilation into a Western, Christian (or secular) society is the last thing on their to-do list. They are Muslim first, then Algerian (or Pakistani/Muslim country) second, and then English (or French/Western country) third.

It's why Muslim political candidates advocate for mass Muslim immigration, instead of respecting the heritage of their new country (e.g. Protestant Christian in the United States or Catholic in Spain). It's why Muslim communities around the West (whether in Roubaix, France, Blackburn, England, or Dearborn, Michigan) look vastly different than all the non-Muslim towns surrounding them. It's why a Muslim child born in a majority-Muslim community in the West today has more in common with their foreign-born parents and (arguably) a child back in their native country, than they do with a heritage American child born 50 miles away.

Reduction

When it comes to the rise of Islam, the United States is in a good position compared to many Western European nations (and Australia/Canada). A significant reduction to mass immigration (over 80%) and a blacklist of anyone coming from countries supporting terrorism (e.g. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, etc) would largely stop this issue.

Muslims have a high birth rate (an estimated 2.5 children per woman, against a national average near 2.1) but at 1% of the total population, this still leads to slow increases. The growth of Islam, as discussed earlier, is a story of mass immigration. Without the immigration, the growth ceases to exist.