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Cathedral of Saint Vitus, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Prague. The decline of Christianity recorded throughout the censuses of 1991, 2001 and 2011. The Czechs gradually converted to Christianity from Slavic paganism between the 9th and the 10th century, and Christianity—especially the Catholic Church, with significant minorities of Protestantism, and even majorities in some ...
In the 1921 Czechoslovak census, the first post-war census, 523,232 people claimed to be adherents of this church in what is today the Czech Republic. In 1930, the membership further grew to 779,672. [13] With 7.3% of total population, it became the prevailing religion in several regions of Bohemia and to a lesser degree in Moravia. At the ...
The 1920 newly constituted Czechoslovak Church (since 1971 known as Czechoslovak Hussite Church) and the Czech Brethren (1918) were major beneficiaries of this defection from Catholicism until after World War II, when the overall belief in organized religion started to fall steeply.
In 1981 a number of church dignitaries stood before the Czechoslovak minister of culture to take a vow of loyalty to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. [6] A development that was particularly distressing to the authorities was the growing interest in religion on the part of young people in Czechoslovakia.
Czech Republic religion-related lists (1 C, 3 P) O. Religious organizations based in the Czech Republic (6 C) P. Religion in Prague (3 C, 2 P) R.
Following the Velvet Revolution and the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, there was a brief increase in religious affiliation in the Czech Republic. Overwhelming opposition to Communist rule in the country led to the adoption of church affiliation as a political statement, and the 1991 census demonstrated a significant jump in religiosity compared ...
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s. ...
There are an estimated 20,000 Muslims in the Czech Republic, representing 0.2% of the country's population. [2] The growing Turkish community form the largest Muslim population in the country. [3] According to the 2010 census, there are around 3500 Muslims in the Czech Republic (less than 0.1% of country's population), compared to 495 in 1991.