Islam in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The presence of Islam in the Cocos islands is due to the population who were brought to Cocos and Christmas islands as labourers, of Malay and Indonesian origin.

Roughly 80 percent of the inhabitants on the

Categories

Islam in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

http://www.shire.cc/en/your-community/community-groups.html Persatuan Islam Pulu Cocos

External links

^ CIA Publication
^ http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=35222
^ http://books.google.com/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=mosque+christmas+island&source=bl&ots=8sDIobYoNp&sig=HLCrELtQZMkr-BD8dT6WMV-iKDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zmE2UIChFtGM6QG0wYH4CQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=mosque%20christmas%20island&f=false

Notes

The Islands have three mosques, the most recent of which located on West Island.^[3]

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Islam in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands