page_title: Lax, Switzerland
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Lax, Switzerland / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Church in Lax, village in the canton of Vallais, Switzerland. Picture taken by Peter Berger, July 17, 2006.
context_page_description: Lax is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: The principal landmark is the neo-gothic church of Saint Anne, designed by Antonio Croci, which dates from 1868.
  From the 2000 census, 248 or 85.5% were Roman Catholic, while 11 or 3.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 14 members of an Orthodox church (or about 4.83% of the population), and there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 7 (or about 2.41% of the population) who were Islamic. 2 (or about 0.69% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 7 individuals (or about 2.41% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Church of Lax
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