Islam in the United States
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Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States after Christianity and Judaism. The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages li
Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Roxbury
Letter of George Washington to Mohammed ben Abdallah in appreciation of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed in 1787.
Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), 1819. Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Gertrudis Serna & Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly).
Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western nations. Polls indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans believ
The Washington National Cathedral.
Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867)
The Maryland Toleration Act secured religious liberty in the English colony of Maryland. Similar laws were passed in the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. These laws stood in direct contrast with the Puritan theocratic rule in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies.
A Congregational church in Cheshire, Connecticut