Religion in Barcelona
Barcelona is mostly Catholic. The importance of the Muslim community is growing rapidly due to mass immigration arrival in recent years. Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity.[1][2][3] The city also has the largest Jewish community in Spain, with an estimated 3,500 Jews living in the city.[4]
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Catholic
In 2011, 49.5% of Barcelona's residents identify themselves as Catholic.[5]
Barcelona has crossed a psychological boundary: for the first time, more than half of respondents (50.5%) claim not to be Catholic, while just under half (49.5%) are recognized as Catholic.[5]
Increasingly fewer Spaniards are Catholic, and they also are increasingly practitioners.[clarification needed] These are data from a survey of Catholicism and religious practice collected by InfoCatólica, which also finds first decline of Catholics under 50% of the population in Barcelona and 45% at young people between 14 and 25 throughout the territory.[5]
Islam
In 2014, 322,698 people in the province of Barcelona are of Muslim faith, including 217,405 immigrants and 105,293 Spanish citizens.[3][6]
Muslim pupils in schools of Barcelona
By province noted for its number of Muslim pupils, Barcelona's(more than 70,000 students) and Madrid, followed by Murcia, all with no contract or authorization of regional delivery if contratasen teachers of religion the same parents of students.[3][6]
Mosques in Barcelona
Currently, Barcelona blesses model oratories around the city. A formula implemented by the socialist governments that the PSC continues to defend. The possible concentration of faithful in one cult center collides with the present dispersion. In Barcelona there are 126 oratories, a figure that has grown exponentially in the last decade, since in 2004 there were 71 of these registered equipment.[7]
Records found that the number of Muslim places of worship in Barcelona city are 264 places.[8]
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References
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