Editing Barcelona (section)

=== Religion ===
{{Main|Religion in Barcelona}}
[[File:Barcelona 4527.JPG|thumb|[[Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor]]]]
In 2007, most of the inhabitants stated they are [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] (208&nbsp;churches).<ref name="LMBCN">{{cite web |author=Barcelona |url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/242726/0/mitad/mezquitas/barcelona/ |title=La mitad de las mezquitas de Catalunya están en Barcelona |date=4 June 2007 |publisher=20minutos.es |access-date=8 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205032/http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/242726/0/mitad/mezquitas/barcelona/ |archive-date=15 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2011 survey conducted by InfoCatólica, 49.5% of Barcelona residents of all ages identified themselves as [[Catholic]].<ref name="cbn.com">{{cite web |last=Digital |first=Protestante |url=http://www.cbn.com/mundocristiano/elmundo/2011/July/Espana-es-el-pais-europeo-en-el-que-mas-retrocede-el-catolicismo/ |title=España experimenta retroceso en catolicismo – El Mundo – Mundo Cristiano |publisher=CBN.com |date=7 July 2011 |access-date=8 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717170821/http://www.cbn.com/mundocristiano/elmundo/2011/July/Espana-es-el-pais-europeo-en-el-que-mas-retrocede-el-catolicismo/ |archive-date=17 July 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first time that more than half of respondents did not identify themselves as Catholic Christians.<ref name="cbn.com"/> The numbers reflect a broader trend in Spain whereby the numbers of self-identified Catholics have declined.<ref name="cbn.com"/> In 2019, a survey by [[Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas]] showed that 53.2% of residents in Barcelona identified themselves as [[Catholic]] (9.9% practising Catholics, 43.3% non-practising Catholics).<ref name="C-I-S">{{cite web |url=http://datos.cis.es/pdf/Es3253marMT_MBarcelona_A.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://datos.cis.es/pdf/Es3253marMT_MBarcelona_A.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Postelectoral Elecciones Autonómicas y municipales 2019. Barcelona (Municipio de) |author=CIS |date=July 2019 |access-date=27 September 2019}}</ref>

The province has the largest [[Muslim]] community in Spain, 322,698 people in Barcelona province are of Muslim religion.<ref name="observatorio.hispanomuslim.es">{{Cite web |url=http://observatorio.hispanomuslim.es/estademograf.pdf |title=Estudio demográfico de la población musulmana |publisher=Unión de Comunidades Islámicas de España |access-date=27 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527070814/http://observatorio.hispanomuslim.es/estademograf.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> A considerable number of Muslims live in Barcelona due to immigration (169&nbsp;locations, mostly professed by [[Moroccans in Spain]]).<ref name="LMBCN" /> In 2014, 322,698 out of 5.5&nbsp;million people in the province of Barcelona identified themselves as Muslim,<ref name="observatorio.hispanomuslim.es"/> which makes 5.6% of the total population.

The city also has the largest Jewish community in Spain, with an estimated 3,500 Jews living in the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/barcelona.html |title=The Jewish Virtual History Tour: Barcelona |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |access-date=27 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410232811/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/barcelona.html |archive-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> There are also a number of other groups, including [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] (71&nbsp;locations, mostly professed by [[Gitanos|Roma]]), [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] (21&nbsp;[[Kingdom Hall]]s), [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] (13&nbsp;locations),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://w3.bcn.es/ab/asia/equipament/controller/0,2317,1653_71890_3,00.html?accio=llista_eq&primera_busqueda=true&temaOriginal=&tema=0040101011_Religion&que=&opcio2=&opcio=districte&districte=&zona=&carrer=&numero=&al= |title=Barcelona: Directory: Theme: Religion |publisher=W3.bcn.es |access-date=26 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005011256/http://w3.bcn.es/ab/asia/equipament/controller/0%2C2317%2C1653_71890_3%2C00.html?accio=llista_eq&primera_busqueda=true&temaOriginal=&tema=0040101011_Religion&que=&opcio2=&opcio=districte&districte=&zona=&carrer=&numero=&al= |archive-date=5 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Eastern Orthodox]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oecatala.htm |title=Orthodox Church in Catalonia |publisher=Orthodoxengland.org.uk |access-date=30 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617014750/http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oecatala.htm |archive-date=17 June 2012}}</ref>