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
Stockholm Mosque
The Malmö Mosque. Approximately one-third of Malmö's inhabitants are Muslims.
Nasir Mosque, the first mosque in Sweden, was built in Gothenburg in the 1970s by the Ahmadiyya Movement.
Gothenburg Mosque
Islam in Europe
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Islam is the second-largest religion in Europe after Christianity. Although the majority of Muslim communities in Western Europe formed as a result of recent post-WW2 immigration, there are centuries-
Islam in Sweden
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The King's Mosque in Pristina, Kosovo
Albanian rebels capturing Skopje in August 1912
Battle of Nicopolis in the year 1396
The woodcut by Leonhard Beck, from c. 1515, depicts the Battle of Krbava Field between the army of Croatian nobility and Ottoman akinji.