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Sacramento Chapter

Sacramento County

Home to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean and Assyrian Catholic Church in Orangevale — formed when the area's Chaldean community, worshiping in the Diocese of Sacramento for over 30 years, roughly doubled in size as about 40 Iraqi refugee families arrived in the late 2000s — and to the SALAM Islamic Center, serving the greater Sacramento area's Muslim community since the 1990s.

Arab ancestry (ACS est.)

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Arabic spoken at home

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Limited English proficiency share

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Dominant dialect profile

Iraqi/Chaldean-majority refugee-origin community, alongside a broader multi-ethnic Arab and Muslim population