Document
Catalog mosques, schools, cultural institutions, and community organisations — with services, founding dates, contact details, and the sources behind each field.
About the Project
Guide to Latin documents Islamic institutional life across Latin America — who is present, where, since when, and on what evidence. We do not advocate, rank, or endorse. We record, and we show our sources.
What is Guide to Latin?
Guide to Latin is a comprehensive observatory — not a directory — mapping Islamic institutions, theological networks, and academic research across Latin America. The information exists in municipal registries, census returns, academic footnotes, and institutions' own records, but it has never been gathered, cross-checked, and kept current in one place. We are trying to close that gap, in three languages, with every claim traceable to a source a reader can check themselves.
Researchers reconstruct the same baseline from scratch. Communities are undercounted in policy that affects them. Families relocating cannot find out whether a city has a school, a prayer space, or nothing at all. This platform exists to make that baseline visible, verifiable, and continuously updated.
Our Mission
Three commitments guide every record we publish and every partnership we form.
Connect
Link centers to the research that references them, countries to the communities they contain, and readers to the evidence they need to trust what they find.
Research
Index articles, working papers, theses, and reports by country, language, and topic — curating scholarship that helps researchers and policymakers understand the region.
Who we serve
- Researchers — scholars who need a verified baseline instead of reconstructing institutional maps from scratch.
- Communities — families and local leaders seeking accurate information about prayer spaces, schools, and services in their city.
- Policymakers — officials who require documented evidence of institutional presence when drafting regulation or allocating resources.
- Students — learners exploring the history, geography, and contemporary landscape of Islam in Latin America.
Partners & collaborators
We draw on public registries, academic institutions, and municipal data sources across the region.
IBGE Brasil Cadastro Nacional de Entidades Religiosas Universidade de São Paulo Prefeitura de São Paulo INEGI México Municipalidad de Buenos Aires Iberoblam Observatory Centro de Estudios Islámicos
Explore the observatory
Browse documented centers across 20 countries, or dive into peer-reviewed research indexed by topic and region.
Want to know how records are verified? Read our methodology