page_title: Aesch, Basel-Landschaft
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Aesch, Basel-Landschaft / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Katholische Kirche in Aesch, Kanton Basel-Landschaft
context_page_description: Aesch is a village and a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Almost all of its area is located on the left, western bank of the Birs and is a suburb of Basel.
  The Neolithic gravesite in the Gmeiniwald is listed as a heritage site of national significance.
  The official language of Aesch is German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 4,294 or 44.1% were Roman Catholic, while 2,723 or 28.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 187 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.92% of the population), there were 20 individuals (or about 0.21% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 216 individuals (or about 2.22% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 3 individuals (or about 0.03% of the population) who were Jewish, and 496 (or about 5.10% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 28 individuals who were Buddhist, 59 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,458 (or about 14.98% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 246 individuals (or about 2.53% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Church in Aesch
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