The Argentina paper "Calrine" has said that converted new Muslims in Argentina now number 900,000, and if the Arabs and other Muslims are included, their number is estimated at three million.

The first batch of Muslims is said to have arrived sometime in 1870, from such countries as Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, but in recent years the number of Arabs emigrating to Argentina has gone down.

The Director of the center for Islamic Studies in Argentina has said that the country is witnessing as increase in the number of new converts to Islam.

In the Argentinian capital, there is a large Mosque that was built in 1989, but there also are numerous other Mosques in various parts of the country, and the new Islamic Center which is being built with the help of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, on a piece of land measuring 20,000 square meters, will soon be completed. The total land area granted by the Argentian Government measures 34,000 square meters.

The project is expected to cost US $ 40 million, and would include a mosque, a library, two schools, and a park.