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]

Catholic

In 2011, 49.5% of Barcelona's residents identify themselves as Catholic.[5]

As for the results broken down by geographic areas, it notes that, in Barcelona, has crossed a psychological boundary. For the first time, more than half of respondents (50.5%) claims not to be Catholic, while recognized as Catholics just under half (49.5%).[5]

Increasingly fewer Spaniards are Catholic, and they also are increasingly practitioners. These are data from a survey of Catholicism and religious practice that collects 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 Barcelona province are of Muslim faith, including 217,405 - immigrants and 105,293 Spanish people.[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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Culture in Barcelona | Activity breaks in Spain (Mainland)". Monarch. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  2. ↑ "Idioma, moneda, horarios de Barcelona, política y religión" (in Spanish). Buscounviaje.com. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  3. 1 2 3 "Casi 9 de cada 10 nuevos musulmanes residentes en España son españoles y, de ellos, más de la mitad ha nacido en el país" (in Spanish). Europapress.es. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  4. ↑ "The Jewish Virtual History Tour: Barcelona". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 "España experimenta retroceso en catolicismo - El Mundo - Mundo Cristiano" (in Spanish). CBN.com. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  6. 1 2 "Observatorio Andalusi : Estudio demografico de la poblacion musulmana" (PDF) (in Spanish). Observatorio.hispanomuslim.es. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  7. ↑ "Avisan a Trias del riesgo de que radicales financien una gran mezquita en Barcelona | Cataluña | EL MUNDO" (in Spanish). Elmundo.es. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  8. ↑ "Observatorio del Pluralismo Religioso en Espaсa" (in Spanish). Observatorioreligion.es. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
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