Melilla is the autonomous city with more Spanish Muslims

17 February 2013   In Melilla resides a total of 31,276 Spanish Muslims, making it 6% of all those living in Spain, according to “Demographic Study of the Muslim population ‘for the year 2012, published by the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE), the Andalusian Observatory and assembled through data obtained from the different…

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New website of the UCIDE (Union of Islamic Communities of Spain)

The UCIDE (Union of Islamic Communities of Spain) has a new website covering news, articles, researches, activities in both Spanish and Arabic language. Videos, such of the last Islamic Congress of Catalonia are available on the site.   The communities included in the Union are: Castilla La mancha Catalonia Ceuta Extremadura Murcia Pais Vasco Rioja…

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Tatary: UCIDE The project is based on the unity of all Muslims in Spain

28 November 2012 Riay Tatary, President of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain and General Secretary of the Islamic Commission of Spain participated on Wednesday, November 28 at the seminar “Public policies for managing religious diversity in Spain and Latin America” organized by the Law School of the University of Extremadura. Upon completion of…

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The Union of Islamic Communities contest the election of new president


The Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE) has claimed that the decision of the Islamic Commission in Spain (CIE) in the last 17 of November to elect Mounir Benjelloun Andaloussi Azhari as its new president, “did not fit right” by which they will put the necessary legal action to challenge it. They contest the…

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More than a million and a half Muslims in Spain celebrate the Feast of the Sacrifice

26 October 2012 More than a million and a half Muslims in Spain celebrate the Feast of  the Sacrifice in which they must sacrifice a lamb in remembrance of the moment when God asked Abraham’s sacrifice of his eldest son, and then changed it to a lamb. Furthermore, this event is the culmination of the…

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