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The Catholic branch of Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Spain, with high levels of secularization as of 2024. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution . The Pew Research Center ranked Spain as the 16th out of 34 European countries in levels of religiosity, with 21% of the population declaring they were ...
Madrid (/ m ə ˈ d r ɪ d / ⓘ mə-DRID; Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain, with about 3.4 million inhabitants. [10] It is also the capital of the surrounding Community of Madrid, [11] and the core of an urban area of around 7 million people, [2] [12] [13] the second largest in the European Union (EU).
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Pages in category "Religious buildings and structures in Madrid" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rizi's 1683 painting of the 1680 auto-da-fé, Plaza Mayor in Madrid. After centuries of the Reconquista, in which Christian Spaniards fought to drive out the Moors, the Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, to complete the religious purification of the Iberian Peninsula.
According to a 2019 Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) survey with a sample size of 469 respondents, 20.7% of respondents in Madrid identify themselves as practising Catholics, 45.8% as non-practising Catholics, 3.8% as believers of another religion, 11.1% as agnostics, 3.6% as indifferent towards religion, and 12.8% as atheists. The ...
There are also magnificent monasteries like San Millán and Silos in La Rioja, Monstserrat and Poblet in Catalonia, El Escorial and El Paular in Madrid, San Juan de los Reyes in Castile-La Mancha, the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas in Castile and Leon, or churches like Sagrada Família in Barcelona by Antoni Gaudí.
The Madrid Central Mosque (Spanish: Mezquita Central de Madrid; Arabic: مسجد مدريد المركزي) is a mosque, located in the Cuatro Caminos neighborhood of the Tetuán district of Madrid, Spain.