Islam in Poland
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A continuous presence of Islam in Poland began in the 14th century. From this time it was primarily associated with the Lipka Tatars, many of whom settled in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth while continuing their traditions and religious beliefs. The first significant non-Tatar groups of Muslims arrived in Poland in the 1970s, though they are a very small minority.
The Gdańsk mosque
Muslim Tatar Cemetery in Warsaw
Image: Meczet w Kruszynianach front side
Image: 2021 Meczet Bohoniki 2
Lipka Tatars
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The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.
Lithuanian Tartars in the Napoleonic Army with Red and White banners of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Page from the Dastan-ı Miraç a miscellany of religious works written in a Slavic language in the Arabic script, probably copied in the late 18th or early 19th century CE in western Belarus. Although Lipka Tatars are a Turkic people, they have been using Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian or Russian as their means of daily communication for centuries and the bilingual text of the Dastan gives an example of how important Islamic texts where brought into their actual language. The Slavic translation is written in modified Arabic characters with special letters to indicate sounds that do not exist in Arabic or Turkic.
Tatar mosque and graveyard in the Lukiškės suburb (1830), Vilnius. It was replaced by another, a more traditional one, in 1867
Charles Bronson, actor