page_title: Murten
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Murten / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Französische Kirche Murten
context_page_description: Murten or Morat is a bilingual municipality in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
  It is located on the southern shores of Lake Morat. Morat is situated between Bern and Lausanne and is the capital of the See/Lac District of the canton of Fribourg. It is one of the municipalities with a majority of German speakers in the predominantly French-speaking Canton of Fribourg.
  On 1 January 1975 the former municipality of Burg bei Murten merged into the municipality of Murten. It was followed on 1 January 1991 by the former municipality of Altavilla and on 1 January 2013 by the former municipality of Büchslen. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen and Salvenach merged into Morat.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 1,675 or 30.0% were Roman Catholic, while 2,661 or 47.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  Of the rest of the population, there were 96 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.72% of the population), there were 3 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 338 individuals (or about 6.06% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 2 individuals (or about 0.04% of the population) who were Jewish, and 281 (or about 5.04% of the population) who were Islamic.  There were 7 individuals who were Buddhist, 5 individuals who were Hindu and 4 individuals who belonged to another church.  448 (or about 8.03% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 222 individuals (or about 3.98% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: French speaking Reformed church in Morat
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