Islam in Romania

Islam is followed by only 0.3-percent of Romania's population, but has 700 years of tradition in Northern Dobrogea, a region on the Black Sea coast which was part of the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries (ca.1420-1878).

The vast majority of Romania's 58,000 believers in Islam are Sunnis who adhere to the Hanafi school. Eighty-five percent of them live in Constanţa County, twelve percent in Tulcea County and the rest in urban centres such as Bucharest, Brăila, Călăraşi, Galaţi, Giurgiu, and Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

Ethnically, they are mostly Tatars (Crimean Tatars and a number of Nogais), followed by Turks, as well as Muslim Roma (as much as 15,000 people in one estimate), Albanians (about 3,000), and groups of Middle Eastern immigrants.

The community's interests are represented by the Muftiat (Muftiatul Cultului Musulman din România) and the Cultural and Islamic League of Romania (Liga Islamică şi Culturală din România).

Romania is home to 90 mosques.