Islam in Guadeloupe

Islam in Guadeloupe is a minority religion in the region.

History

Islam began to spread in the region in the 1940s. In the early 1990s, the idea to construct a mosque was proposed, but the plan was halted midway.^[1]

Demographics

As of 2009, there were around 1000-2,000 Muslims in Guadeloupe, representing about 0.4-0.3% of the population.^[1][2][3]

Organizations

• Guadeloupe Muslim Association, established in 2015^[1]
• Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Guadeloupe, established in 2016^[4]

See also

• Islam portal

• Demographics of Guadeloupe

References

1. Sasongko, Agung (1 January 2018). "Muslim Guadalupe Sulap Apartemen Jadi Masjid" [Guadalupe Muslims Transformed an Apartment into a Mosque]. Khazanah (in Indonesian). Retrieved 13 September 2021.
2. Islam and Muslims in the American Continent. Center of Historical, Economical and Social Studies. 2001. Archived from the original on 11 January 2017.
3. Kettani, Houssain (8 November 2019). The World Muslim Population: Spatial and Temporal Analyses. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-429-74926-1.
4. Bajwa, Luqman (7 June 2019). "Quran Exhibition Guadeloupe". Al Hakam. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

Further reading

• Bonilla, Yarimar (28 April 2015), Khan, Aisha (ed.), "Between Terror and Transcendence: Global Narratives of Islam and the Political Scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianité", Islam and the Americas, University Press of Florida, doi:10.5744/florida/9780813060132.003.0007, ISBN 978-0-8130-6013-2, retrieved 13 August 2025

• Kettani, Houssain (8 November 2019). The World Muslim Population: Spatial and Temporal Analyses. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-429-74925-4.

• Chitwood, Ken (21 June 2023), "Islam in the Caribbean", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.1051, ISBN 978-0-19-934037-8, retrieved 1 August 2025
• Bonilla, Yarimar (28 April 2015), Khan, Aisha (ed.), "Between Terror and Transcendence: Global Narratives of Islam and the Political Scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianité", Islam and the Americas, University Press of Florida, p. 0, doi:10.5744/florida/9780813060132.003.0007, ISBN 978-0-8130-6013-2, retrieved 17 August 2025