Islam in Chile
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According to Chronicles of the History of Chile by Aurelio Díaz Meza, there was a man in the expedition of discoverer
It is known that in 1854 two "Turks" resided in the country, a situation that was repeated in the censuses of 1865 and 1875.[
According to the 1885 census, the number of "Turks" had risen to 29, but there is no precise information on their origin and their faith, since religion was not included in that census.[
In Santiago, the first Islamic institution of Chile, the Society of Muslim Union of Chile (Sociedad Unión Musulmana), was founded on 25 September 1926.[citation needed] Later, on 16 October 1927, the Society of Mutual Aids and Islamic Charity was established. With the 1952 census, the number of Muslims had risen again to 956. The majority lived in Santiago, with the rest of the population scattered in the provinces of Antofagasta, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, O'Higgins, Concepción, Malleco, Cautín and Valdivia, without much organization among them. Their numbers decreased again, so that by 1960 there were only 522, with the majority of 209 living in Santiago. A decade later, the number of Muslims had increased to 1,431. However, the census did not indicate whether they were men or women, nationals or foreigners. Nevertheless, they were spread throughout the country.
In 1988, the construction of the mosque of Santiago named
Infrastructure
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Through the 1970s and 1980s, there were no religious leaders or centers for praying. Muslims who maintained the faith met in the residence of Taufik Rumie' Dalu, a trader of Syrian origin. In 1990 the construction of the Al-Salam Mosque began, the first in the country. In 1995 another mosque was inaugurated in Temuco, and 1998 a new one in Iquique. In Chile, Islam is primarily the result of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian migrations from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fleeing conditions in the Ottoman Empire, these Levantine immigrants and their descendants permanently settled in Chile and established the first Islamic institutions in the 1920s.[4]
Today
There are a number of organizations founded by the Muslim community in Chile, including:
- Asociación Islámica de Chile (Islamic Association of Chile)
- Centro de Cultura y Beneficencia Islámico
- Centro Chileno Islámico de Cultura de Puerto Montt
- Fundación Islámica de Chile (Islamic Foundation of Chile).
See also
References
- ^ Miller, Tracy, ed. (October 2009), Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population (PDF), Pew Research Center, p. 35, archived from the original (PDF) on August 5, 2010, retrieved 2009-10-08
- ^ Kusumo, Fitra Ismu, ed. (2007), ISLAM EN AMÉRICA LATINA Tomo II: Migración Árabe a América Latina y el caso de México, retrieved 2013-11-18
- ^ Islam Online. "The Muslim Community in Chile Origins and Dreams". Archived from the original on 2007-03-17. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^ Perez, Michael Vicente and Ingalls, Matthew (18 September 2022). "Chile has a growing Muslim community – but few know about it". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
External links
- Centro Islámico de Cultura/ Islamic Centre of Culture (Centro Islámico de Cultura)
- The Muslim Community in Chile: Origins and Dreams
- Fundación Islámica de Chile / Islamic Foundation of Chile
- Halal Certification Center Of Chile Chilehalal (Halal Certification)
- Archived 2020-10-19 at the Wayback Machine 2nd Conference on Halal Food & Control Chile 2013 HalalExpoChile 2013