Source: Portland Press Herald Online

On July 6, 1999, the Portland Press Herald Online published an article on the Muslim population in Maine. Due to the influx of immigrants to Maine from Somalia, Iran, Iraq, and Kosovo, the Muslim population has grown to approximately 1,500. The Portland Muslim community now has a masjid and sustains the New World Market, the state's only halal meat counter. The largest Muslim groups in Maine are Afghans and Somalians, with immigrant groups also from Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Iran, and Iraq.