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Religious geography

Judaism

The Jewish community in Spain is concentrated in the larger cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Seville and in the regions along the Mediterranean coast like the Spanish Levant (Alicante and (...)

The Jewish community in Spain is concentrated in the larger cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Seville and in the regions along the Mediterranean coast like the Spanish Levant (Alicante and Valencia) or the Costa del Sol of Andalusia (Malaga, Marbell and Torremolinos). The communities of Ceuta and Melilla made up of Sephardic families from Morocco and Algeria should also be mentioned.
The Spanish Jewish community experienced a growth in its numbers during the 20th century, first, with the arrival of families from Western Europe who were fleeing from their countries during the First and Second World Wars. The end of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco in 1956 also brought on the voluntary exile of many Jews to cities like Ceuta, Melilla and Malaga.
More recently, the community was enriched with people from Latin America as a result of the economic and political crises that that part of the world is experiencing.

D 13 September 2012 AIrene González González

Protestantism

The Protestant community in Spain has over 2, 000 local congregations and various religious, cultural and charitable institutions throughout the country. The representative organ of the (...)

The Protestant community in Spain has over 2, 000 local congregations and various religious, cultural and charitable institutions throughout the country. The representative organ of the Evangelical Community is the Federación de Entidades Religiosas Evangélicas de España (FEREDE), (Federation of the Evangelical Religious Groups of Spain), made up of 11 independent councils located in the following Autonomous Communities: Andalusia, Aragon, the Principality of Asturias, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid and the Basque Country. The Autonomous Communities with the most Evangelical Protestants are Catalonia, Madrid, Galicia, Valencia and Andalusia. According to figures provided by the FEREDE, the highest Protestant population densities in rural areas are in the provinces of Jaen, Pontevedra and Valencia.

D 13 September 2012 AIrene González González

Islam

In Spain, Islam is represented, in both of its components, throughout the country. However, naturalised Islam is highest in the provinces of Andalusia where it has historical roots, Cordoba, (...)

In Spain, Islam is represented, in both of its components, throughout the country. However, naturalised Islam is highest in the provinces of Andalusia where it has historical roots, Cordoba, Granada and Seville, and in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, where Moroccan Muslims settled between 1960 and 1970, and through the Ley de Extranjería en España promulgated in 1985, they obtained Spanish citizenship.
Immigrant Islam is higher in the regions of Catalonia, Madrid and Andalusia where the first Muslim immigrant communities settled in the 80s.
The highest Muslim population densities are located, in decreasing order, in the provinces of Barcelona, Madrid, Murcia, Almeria, Gerona, Tarragona, Alicante and Malaga.

D 13 September 2012 AIrene González González

Places of worship

Data on religious affiliation are not collected in Spain due to Constitutional ban. However, some statistics concerning the distribution of the presence religions are available. See the results (...)

Data on religious affiliation are not collected in Spain due to Constitutional ban. However, some statistics concerning the distribution of the presence religions are available. See the results on the number of places of worship registered at the Spanish Ministry of Justice, elaborated by Fundación Pluralismo y Convivencia.

D 22 October 2013 AJulia Martínez-Ariño