The mosques are investigated after revelations about polygamy - receive millions in grants

Stenhagen's mosque in Uppsala, where an adviser who holds Friday prayers and sits on the foundation's board offered to marry the reporter with a second wife, will, together with 16 other associations, share six million kroner during 2026, according to information to SVT.

Uppsala's great mosque has also received almost 1.2 million in grants during 2023-2025.

Violates the terms and conditions

Religious organizations in Sweden received 66 million this year from the Agency for Youth and Civil Society Issues (MUCF).

In order to receive a grant, the community must live up to the authority's democratic conditions, which among other things state that the organization or any of its representatives may not use violence, coercion or threats, violate basic freedoms and rights or the principle of equal value of people, or discriminate against people or groups.

The MUCF director general is clear that the exposed representatives from the mosques have violated the terms.

The authority is now summoning the religious communities to demand explanations.

- Do they distance themselves from what was said? How do they make sure this doesn't continue? We will turn over all the stones we can with the tools we have, says Magnus Jägerskog.

Revealed 14 years ago

As early as 2012, an Uppdrag review could reveal that imams in Sweden accepted polygamy.

Now it has been 14 years, you have continued to make contributions to these mosques. Has anything changed?

- That is one of the questions we ask ourselves. That this has happened repeatedly and that similar things appear in various reviews, even though many years have passed. That's something that makes it even more serious.

Following the review, three people have lost their jobs or been suspended.