The exact date when the first Muslim came to Bozeman is not known. From the recollections of the current Muslims living in Bozeman and from others who left this community recently, it is estimated that Muslims were living in Bozeman during the early 1970s. We know a Muslim sister who now lives in California was born in Bozeman while her father was a graduate student at Montana State University (MSU) during the early seventies. This is the earliest first hand estimate that we have regarding the Muslim inhabitants in Bozeman.

Bozeman is a small college town where the largest employer is MSU and as such historically most of the Muslims have been associated with the university. Among the Muslims in this town the majority of them are students. To our knowledge, the first organized group for Muslims was formed in the mid 1980s by the students when they started the chapter of Muslim Students Association (MSA) at MSU. During the late 1980s some of the bachelor Muslims of MSA rented a house close to campus. They used the upstairs of the house as their living space and donated the downstairs to be used as a musalla. They used to have many Islamic activities in that musalla on a regular basis throughout the year. This included weekly halaqa, publishing weekly newsletter as a reminder of our Islamic responsibilities, organizing Islamic awareness week, etc. Alhamdulillah even today, this group of students remains the most excellent example for all the Muslims in this town. Unfortunately, those students left Bozeman after graduation one after another and that musalla in Bozeman ceased to exist in the early 1990s. Since then MSA has been organizing Friday prayers and other Islamic activities at various places on campus and sometimes off campus. At present we offer the five daily prayers and the Friday prayer in two small rooms. Since the rooms are so small, it cannot accommodate the sisters during the prayer. These rooms are not big enough for the children's Sunday Islamic school either. As such they meet in another place every week.

Alhamdulillah the Muslim population in the Bozeman area has been growing steadily for the last several years. Therefore, it is high time to establish a permanent mosque that should be the center place for all the Islamic activities in Bozeman and the surrounding areas. With this intention, Islamic Center of Bozeman (ICB) was formed and it became a registered organization in the State of Montana in June 2005. The MSA continues to be a part of ICB and all our activities are held jointly. At present, the number of Muslims in Bozeman and the surrounding areas is estimated at more than 100 and thus the need to establish our own mosque is greater than ever before. With the help of Allah, The Most High, and generous donations from all of you we plan to establish the first permanent mosque and Islamic Center in the entire State of Montana very soon InshaAllah.