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List of mosques in the National Capital Region (Canada)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6629034 ↗
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This is a list of mosques in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

In 2001, the number of Muslims in Ottawa was 80,000, according to Ottawa Muslim Cemetery Inc. Ottawa is experiencing a mosque building boom with half a dozen mosques being built or expanded. The Assunah Muslims Association is building a mosque in Ottawa South and the Kanata Muslim Association is fundraising to seek a large location to replace the space it rents at a community centre.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of mosques in the National Capital Region (Canada)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.