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Churches and faiths
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In 1529, the Reformation gained acceptance in both the city of Basel and its adjacent countryside. Besides the Reformed Church and Roman Catholic and other Christian denominations, various non-Christian faiths also maintain a presence in Basel.
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At the Reformation in 1529, the Reformed Church became the official church in both the city of Basel and the surrounding rural areas. Nor did this change in 1833, when the canton split into two half-cantons, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft. When religious freedom was established in 1798, it was notably the city of Basel that developed from a purely Reformed-Church town into a multi-religious centre that now caters for more than 170 Christian and non-Christian faiths, various church and free-church denominations, and other religious communities.
Besides the Roman and Old Catholic Churches, there are also communities of Baptists, Christian minority churches, and Christian Free Churches.
Among Basel's non-Christian faiths are a Jewish community, Islam, Alevites, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other more recent religious movements.
Between 1970 and 1990, the number of inhabitants who declare that they belong to no denomination has risen from only a few percent to about a third of the total population. This development has been mainly at the expense of the Reformed and Roman Catholic Churches.
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