Wikipedia's first sentence called it “relatively new”. Today it says “second-largest religion in belgium”.
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Islam in Europe by percentage of country population Great Mosque of Brussels . Islam is the second largest religion in Belgium after Christianity . The exact number of Muslims in Belgium is unknown but various sources estimate that 4.0% to 7.6% of the country's population adheres to Islam. The first registered presence of Islam in Belgium was in 1829, but most Belgian Muslims are first-, second-, or third-generation immigrants that arrived after the 1960s. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Mosque in Lebbeke Islam in Belgium is relatively new, and is mostly practised in the Belgian immigrant communities. It is the largest minority religion in Belgium.
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Central Mosque in Lebbeke .Islam is the largest minority religion in Belgium , practiced by an estimated 6% of the total population. 98% of the Belgian Muslims belong to the Sunni denomination, the rest are Shia (mainly Alevi ).
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Great Mosque of Brussels .Islam in Belgium is the second largest religion in the country after Christianity .The exact number of Muslims in Belgium is unknown but various sources estimate that 4.0% to 6.5% of the country's population adheres to Islam .The first registered presence of Islam in Belgium was in 1829, but most Belgian Muslims are first-, second-, or third-generation immigrants that arrived after the 1960s.
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relatively new
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second-largest religion in belgium
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