Regions with significant populations | |
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In absolute frequencies: Catalonia, Andalusia, Community of Madrid, Valencian Community, Region of Murcia | |
Religions | |
Majority Sunni, minority Shia | |
Languages | |
Main: Spanish, Arabic, Berber and others |
Islam by country |
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Islam portal |
90–100% | |
70–90% | |
50–70% | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
30–40% | North Macedonia |
10–20% | |
5–10% | |
4–5% | |
2–4% | |
1–2% | |
< 1% |
Spain is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion, practised mostly by immigrants from Muslim majority countries.
Islam was a major religion on the Iberian Peninsula, beginning with the Umayyad conquest of Hispania and ending (at least overtly) with its prohibition by the modern Spanish state in the mid-16th century and the expulsion of the Moriscos in the early 17th century, an ethnic and religious minority of around 500,000 people.[2] Although a significant proportion of the Moriscos returned to Spain, or avoided expulsion, the practice of Islam had faded into obscurity by the 19th century[3] after many years of crypto-Muslims practicing their faith in secret.[citation needed]
While the 2022 official estimation of Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) indicates that 2.8% of the population of Spain has a religion other than Catholicism,[4] according to an unofficial estimation of 2020 by the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE) the Muslim population in Spain represents the 4.45% of the total Spanish population as of 2019, of whom 42% were Spanish citizens (most of them with foreign family origins), 38% Moroccans, and 20% of other nationalities.[5]
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