History of Islam in RomaniaIslam in Romania has a long tradition that dates back to approximately 700 years ago. Some historical chronicles say that Muslims in Dobrogea predated the Ottoman rule of the region. In present day Romania, adherents to Islam forms about 0.3% of the 20 million population. After the Russian-Turkish Wars of 1877-78 and after the Communist rule, the numbers of Muslims in Romania decreased drastically.

According to the 2011 census, 64,337 people, approximately 0.3% of the total population indicated that their religion was Islam. Ethnically, they are mostly Tatars (Crimean Tatars and a number of Nogais), followed by Turks, as well as Muslim Roma (as much as 15,000 people in one estimate), Albanians (as many as 3,000), and a group of Middle Eastern immigrants. Members of the Muslim Community inside the Roma minority are colloquially known as “Turkish Romani”

Ninety-seven percent of the Romanian Muslims are resident of the two counties forming Norther Dobruja: eighty-five percent live in Constanta, and twelve percent in Tulcea. The rest mainly inhabit urban centers such as Bucharest, Braila, Calarasi, Galati, Giurgiu, and Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

There are a great number of ethnic Romanians who converted to Islam since 9/11. Even though we do not have an accurate statistics, some analysis indicate that at least 10 - 30 people convert to Islam monthly online while those who do it outside of the realm of the net are not known.