Muslims constitute the second largest religion in the Netherlands, after Christianity, at 8 percent, but it is the first in terms of prevalence among the Dutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to unofficial statistics, the number of Muslims in the Netherlands exceeded one million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are more than 450 mosques in the Netherlands. In the cultural capital Amsterdam alone, there are more than 40 mosques, which go beyond their role as a house of worship to turn into a social, cultural, political and even economic institution as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Muslims constitute the second largest religion in the Netherlands, after Christianity, at 8 percent, but it is the first in terms of prevalence among the Dutch. According to unofficial statistics, the number of Muslims in the Netherlands exceeded one million. There are more than 450 mosques in the Netherlands. In the cultural capital Amsterdam alone, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[214,531,220],"class_list":["post-87931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-mosque","tag-muslims","tag-netherlands"],"yoast_head":"\n