Islam in Uganda

Uganda is an overwhelmingly Christian majority country, with Islam being the second most widely professed faith.

According to the 2014 National Census, Islam in Uganda was practised by 14 percent of the population.

[3] The Iganga District in the east of Uganda had the highest percentage of Muslims according to a 2009 published report.

Islam was also spread throughout Uganda by Muslim colonial administrators who originally worked in northern Uganda when it was by controlled by the Khedivate of Egypt but were later employed by British colonial administrator Frederick Lugard when Egyptian control collapsed in the south.

Mosques were built in almost every established city in Uganda and the Uganda Muslim Education Association, founded by prince Badru Kakungulu with help by Asian Muslims, built hundreds of primary schools through introducing western educational curriculum into madrasah schools across the country.