Islam in Romania

The Islam in Romania has been practiced by approximately 0,3% of the population, it is present for almost 700 years in the country, in particular in the north of Dobroudja, an area of the coast of the Black Sea which belonged to the Ottoman Empire during almost five centuries (1393 - 1878).

Romania counts approximately 58.000 Moslems, in majority sunnite hanafi. Nearly 85% of these Moslems live with counted of Constanţa, 12% with counted Tulcea and the others live in urban centres like Bucharest, Brăila, Călăraşi, Galaţi, Giurgiu and Drobeta Turnu-Severin. Ethniquement, the Rumanian Moslems are in majority Tatars (Tatars of the Crimea with a certain number of Nogaïs), followed Turks, of Albanian and Rroms. The Rumanian Muslim community is represented by the Liga Islamică şi Culturală DIN România (cultural and Islamic League of Romania).

History

The first Moslems arrived to Romania by the way of the Petchenègues and the Coumans. Petchenègues reigned as of 1061, on the area of Valachie and Moldavie.

Dobroudja

The presence of Criméens and Nogaïs (the latter settled in counted Tulcea, mainly in the towns of Isaccea and Babadag) goes up has several years before the foundation of the Ottoman Empire. Part of Tatars left the area after the Russo-Turkish Guerre of 1877 - 1878. After the war, the government of Ion Brătianu granted maintains it civic rights to the not-Christians. The Muslim community was prone to the repression of the State during the communist era . The Turkish schools and tatares were closed in 1957, the Moslem seminar of Medjidiya which formed the religious executives was closed in 1967. Moreover, the Moslem publications were prohibited a long time, as well as the pilgrimage with Mecque.

Today, 85% of the Moslems of origins Turkish and tatars live in counted of Constanţa by forming 6% of the population total there. They are represented at the Parliament by the democratic Union of Tatars turco-Moslems of Romania. The arts center of Rumanian Islam remains the town of Constanţa and it is in the town of Mangalia that is one of the largest mosques Rumanian built in 1525.

Source

External bond

cultural and Islamic League of Romania

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