page_title: Islam in Taiwan
section_title: Fourth wave of migration
hierarchical_section_title: Islam in Taiwan / The spread of Islam to Taiwan / Fourth wave of migration
caption_attribution_description: English: At-Taqwa Mosque, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan中文（台灣）‎: 中華民國桃園市大園區大園清真寺Bahasa Indonesia: Masjid At-Taqwa, Daerah Dayuan, Kota Taoyuan, Taiwan
context_page_description: Islam is a slowly growing religion in Taiwan and it represents about 0.3% of the population. There are around 60,000 Muslims in Taiwan, in which about 90% belong to the Hui ethnic group. There are also more than 180,000 foreign Muslims working in Taiwan from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, as well as other nationalities from more than 30 countries. As of 2018, there are eleven mosques in Taiwan, with the most notable being the Taipei Grand Mosque, the oldest and largest one.
  Taiwanese Muslims, which are mostly descended from Chinese Muslims in Mainland China, is Sunni Muslims and mostly belong to the Hanafi school. Nevertheless, they practically face no problem at all with other groups of Muslim schools. Differences are more a matter of mutual curiosity rather than conflict. In contrast to China's persecution of Uighurs, Taiwan is defending the rights of Taiwanese Muslims, promoting its relationship with Muslim-majority countries, and welcoming Muslim immigrants and tourists.
context_section_description: The majority of Taiwanese Muslims today are relatively recent converts, mostly women, who have married mainlander Muslims. Today there are some 60,000 Taiwanese Muslims and a further 150,000 Indonesian Muslim workers and other Muslims from Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, India and elsewhere, making the current total of over 210,000 Muslims living in Taiwan.
  The growing Muslim population in Taiwan from Indonesia can be seen in many industrial towns, such as the one in Dayuan, Taoyuan City where there are a growing number of Indonesian workers there, in which most of them are Muslim. An Indonesian worker married to a local Taiwanese man built the At-Taqwa Mosque, Taiwan's seventh mosque, which was opened on 9 June 2013. Taiwan's eighth mosque, the An-Nur Tongkang Mosque in Donggang Township, Pingtung County was completed in 2017 and opened on 18 February 2018 by a group of Indonesian fishermen working at a nearby port. Taiwan's ninth and latest mosque, the Hualien Al-Falah Mosque, was built in Hualien City, Hualien County and inaugurated by former Indonesian Minister of Law and Human Rights Mahfud MD on 18 March 2018.
caption: At-Taqwa Mosque in Dayuan District, Taoyuan City.
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