page_title: Estavayer-le-Lac
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Estavayer-le-Lac / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Saint-Laurent Church, Estavayer-le-Lac, Fribourg, Switzerland
context_page_description: Estavayer-le-Lac is a former Swiss municipality of the canton of Fribourg, situated on the south shore of Lake Neuchâtel. Estavayer-le-Lac is located between Yverdon and Bern. It is the capital of the district of Broye. The municipality of Font merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Estavayer-le-Lac. On 1 January 2017 Bussy, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 2,853 or 64.3% were Roman Catholic, while 533 or 12.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  Of the rest of the population, there were 54 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.22% of the population), there were 6 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 131 individuals (or about 2.95% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 2 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish, and 299 (or about 6.74% of the population) who were Islamic.  There were 5 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 3 individuals who belonged to another church.  297 (or about 6.69% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 315 individuals (or about 7.10% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Collegiate church of Saint-Laurent
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