page_title: Islam in Germany
section_title: Denominations
hierarchical_section_title: Islam in Germany / Denominations
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: DITIB-Zentralmoschee Köln - April 2015
context_page_description: Owing to labour migration in the 1960s and several waves of political refugees since the 1970s, Islam has become a visible religion in Germany. An estimate published in 2016 for 2015 calculated that there are 4.4 to 4.7 million Muslims in Germany. Of these, 1.9 million are German citizens. There are also higher estimates, for example according to the German Islam Conference in 2012, Muslims represent 7% of the population in Germany in 2012. According to a 2019 statistical count, there are nearly 440,000 individuals from countries with a muslim majority in Berlin, constituting 11.6% of the population.
context_section_description: Muslims in Germany belong to serval different branches of Islam (approximate data):
  Sunnis 2,640,000
  Alevis 500,000
  Twelvers Shi'as 225,500
  Alawites 70,000
  Ahmadiyya 35,000-45,000
  Salafis 10,300
  Sufis 10,000
  Ismailis 1,900
  Zaydis 800
  Ibadis 270
caption: Cologne Central Mosque
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