Muslims make up 5.6 percent of the population of Trinidad and Tobago. The first Muslims to arrive in the country arrived from Africa brought as slaves by the colonists. The second group arrived in 1816 as a small proportion of the African-born Colonial Marine Corps recruited in 1815 in Georgia during the War of 1812.
They were followed by African Muslims among the dissolved members of the West Indian regiments established between 1817 and 1825. Beginning in the 1840s, Muslims came from South Asia to work on the sugar cane and cocoa plantations. Muslims today are mostly of South Asian descent, but there are converts of all races. In Trinidad there are Islamic primary and secondary schools. The country’s first Muslim high school, ASJA Boys’ College, San Fernando, was founded in 1960.
There are several mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and 5 mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha’at Islam Lahore.
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