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Dearborn's reputation as a city with a large Muslim community developed over a century-long process beginning with early 20th-century Arab migration tied to the auto industry and accelerating with maj...
Dearborn, Michigan is widely documented as the first U.S. city with a , but authoritative data show the U.S. Census does not record religion, so claims that Dearborn is a . Local reporting, demographi...
Dearborn’s Arab immigration story begins in the early 20th century with migrants drawn by Ford-era jobs and has continued in waves tied to Middle East conflicts and U.S. refugee flows; scholars and lo...
Dearborn and Hamtramck are repeatedly identified across recent reporting as Michigan’s cities with the , with Dearborn notable for a large Arab-American Muslim presence and Hamtramck for becoming a Mu...
Michigan is consistently listed among the U.S. states with the largest Muslim communities both in raw numbers and as a share of population: several compilations place Michigan in the top tier, with es...
Michigan’s Muslim population is notable but not among the very largest in the United States: recent analyses place the state at roughly , ranking sixth by raw numbers behind New York, California, Illi...
Dearborn’s Muslim community, primarily Arab and Chaldean Americans, has expanded its cultural footprint through institutions, festivals, and civic presence, transforming the city into a regional cente...
Mosque counts and Islamic centers are a useful but incomplete proxy for estimating Muslim population size in U.S. cities: they capture organized religious infrastructure and active worshippers but sys...
Estimates and reporting indicate Dearborn’s Muslim (and broader Middle Eastern/North African — MENA) community grew from roughly 29–30% Arab in 2000 to a substantially larger share by 2020, with local...
Dearborn’s Arab American community is central to the city’s identity: new Census figures show people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry are a majority (54.5%) in Dearborn, and the city hosts ...
Dearborn’s schools have incorporated Muslim culture and practice in two distinct ways: through independent Islamic private and weekend schools that teach Arabic, Qur’an, Islamic history and practices,...
Dearborn’s Muslim landscape in 2025 centers on a mix of long-established institutions and newer community centers: the Islamic Center of America and the American Moslem Society rank among the , while ...
Metro Detroit’s Muslim population has grown through a mix of historical labor migration tied to the auto industry, successive waves of immigration after 1965, higher local fertility and community plac...
Dearborn’s resident population rose from about 98,153 in 2010 to roughly 107–108 thousand by 2023–2024, but authoritative, city-level tabulations that break immigrant residents down by country of orig...
Dearborn’s Muslim residents are served by longstanding religious anchors such as the Islamic Center of America (founded 1949) that host daily prayers, lectures and community services, and by a broader...
The Islamic Center of America (ICA) is a longstanding, large Shia mosque and community institution in Dearborn that traces its roots to the late 1940s, opened its first building in 1963 and moved to a...
Dearborn is home to several , led by the large Islamic Center of America and including long-established congregations such as the American Moslem Society (also called the Dearborn Mosque), plus other ...
Michigan accommodates its Muslim population through a mix of institutional religious infrastructure, community organizations offering prayer services and education, and a growing halal food ecosystem ...