User:J.Wafa/Muslims celebrations in Canada

We first need to know according to Shelby Thevenot in her CIC news, that Muslims population is now 1 million while on the government website Statistic Canada, population of muslims is 1.8 million , making it the second common religion in Canada after christianity with this number of Muslims it is indeed very important to  briefly know how the Islamic community started in Canada to the point that now they do celebrate their biggest and most religious celebrations all over Canada,As a start we have to know that Islam came to Canada through the Scottish man James and his wife Agnes Love in 1858 to be the first Muslims in Canada ,their son was the first Muslim born in Canada, from there number increased to 700 muslims in 1933

when Muslims and Arabs were hated the most ,the first mosque in Canada came into existence in Edmonton it was called AL Rashid mosque as mentioned in The story of Canada’s first mosque on the Historica Canada channel from there, the founders of Al rashid mosque who were a group of brave muslim women who fought and worked hard to establish the first place to gather the 700 muslims in their own place to meet , worship Allah, discuss the matters of their life as new immigrants in Canada and most important to celebrate their happy religious festivals together , asid Shelby Thevenot on her cic article.

Muslims have two official religious festivals each is called EID, the first is Eid el Fiter , it comes the day after the holy month of Ramadan.

followed by the other Eid el Adha, and it comes after 70 days after the holy days of Hajj.