Equatorial Guinea is aChristian majority country, withIslam being a minority religion. Due to thesecular nature of the country's constitution,Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country.[1]
In the 2021Aid to the Church in Need religious freedom report it was estimated that 4.1% of the population were Muslims.[1] Previous estimates by the official press agency of Equatorial Guinea in 2015 reported that 3.5% of the population were Muslim[2] and the U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2006 found that practitioners of Islam comprised less than 1 percent of the population.[3]
Malabo Mosque was opened in 2015 and can accommodate two thousand people.[2]On 2 May 2022, over 500 Muslims gathered on theMalabo promenade to pray and celebrate the end ofRamadan known asEid al-Fitr after not being able to perform these prayers at the end of the fasting month in 2020 and 2021 due toCOVID-19 restrictions.[4] Equatorial Guinea'simam Pedro Benigno Matute Tang said that the main message for 2022 was that Muslims must love one another and educate their children because a "well-educated child, with discipline, cannot adhere to vandalism groups".[5]
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