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'{{Pie chart |thumb = right |caption = Religion in Peru (2007 Census)<ref name="census2007">{{cite web|title=Censos Nacionales 2007|url=http://censos.inei.gob.pe/cpv2007/tabulados/#|publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica INEI|accessdate=13 May 2017}}</ref> </big> |label1 = [[Catholic]] |value1 = 81.3 |color1 = DarkOrchid |label2 = [[Protestant]] |value2 = 12.5 |color2 = DodgerBlue |label3 = No religion |value3 = 2.9 |color3 = Honeydew |label4 = Other religion |value4 = 3.3 |color4 = Chartreuse }} {{Culture of Peru}} '''Religion in [[Peru]]''' is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. [[Christianity]] is the largest religion in Peru. ==Christianity== e: Harvard University Press 1949.</ref><ref>Alfredo Benavides Rodríguez, ''La arquitectura en el Virreinato del Perú y en la Capitanía General de Chile. 3rd edition’’. Santiago de Chile: Andrés Bello 1988.</ref><ref>Antonio San Cristóbal Sebastián, ''Arquitectura virreynal religiosa de Lima''. Lima: stadium 1988.</ref><ref>Valerie Fraser. ''The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535-1635''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989.</ref><ref>Teresa Gisbet and José de la Mesa, ''Arquitectura andina, 1500-1830''. 2nd edition. La Paz: embajada de España en Bolivia 1997.</ref> Some convents were also built on Inca sites. For example, in 1605, some Dominican nuns built the Convent of Santa Catalina in Cuzco atop the site of the "acllahuasi," once home to virginal young women dedicated to serving the ruling Inca. Another convent, the Convent of Santa Clara, was one of the first institutions the conquistadores of Cuzco built for "Indian nobles," the daughters of the indigenous elite whose collaboration made Spain's indirect rule over the Andes possible.<ref>Kathryn Burns, COLONIAL HABITS: CONVENTS AND THE SPIRITUAL ECONOMY OF CUZCO, PERU.(Durham: Duke University Press, 1999) 2.</ref> At Santa Clara, Inca nobles were to be "raised Christian and to receive 'buenas costumbres' (literally, good customs or manners), shorthand for an education in Spanishness," which included knowledge, stitchery, literacy. After graduating from this course in Spanish culture, charges were free to profess vows or leave the convent.<ref>Burns, 27.</ref> Miscegenation was not an issue among Spaniards. Many prominent Spanish men lived with elite Inca women, only to == Other religions in Peru == <!-- Con las migraciones llegaron otras prácticas religiosas al Perú. Los chinos en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, los judíos, las comunidades árabes y turcas, cada grupo social trajo su propia religión, de tal manera que se practica en el Perú, además de la religión cristiana, la religión budista, mahometana, hinduista, entre otras. --> ===The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints=== {{main|The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Peru}} [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] claims more than [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints membership statistics#South America|568,000 members]] in Peru.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beta-newsroom.lds.org/country/peru |title=LDS Newsroom -Peru |publisher=Beta-newsroom.lds.org |date=2011-12-24 |accessdate=2012-10-20}}</ref><ref name="ldsstats">{{cite web|url=http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/country/peru |title=Peru |publisher=[[Church News]]|date=2016-09-24 |accessdate=2016-09-20}}</ref> There are currently 764 congregations that meet in Peru.<ref name="ldsstats"/> This is down from 776 in 2012.<ref name="ldsstats-2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/country/peru/ |title=Peru |publisher=[[Church News]] |date=2014-02-14 |accessdate=2016-09-20 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214180734/http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/country/peru/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 |df= }}</ref> There are currently two [[Temples (LDS Church)|LDS temple]] in Peru, located at [[Lima Peru Temple|La Molina]] in Lima and a second temple in [[Trujillo Peru Temple|Trujillo]]. The LDS church also announced a third temple to be built in Arequipa, announced October 6, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/trujillo/ |title=Trujillo Paru Temple |publisher=LDSChurchTemples.com |date= |accessdate=2012-10-20}}</ref> In the most recent General Conference for the LDS church on April 3, 2016 it was announced that a fourth temple would be built in Peru in Los Olivos Lima. <ref>{cite web url=http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/limalosolivos/}</ref> This second temple in Lima makes the city one of the few in the world with two temples. Peru is also home to more than 100 stakes of the LDS church. ===Buddhism=== Buddhism was introduced to Peru in 1899 when the ship Sakura Maru arrived at Callao, Peru, with 790 people from Japan. Japanese, Chinese, and Korean immigration to Peru during the 19th and 20th Century brought [[Mahayana Buddhism]] to Peru, and followers of that style of Buddhism remain largely concentrated within those ethnic groups. While Mahayana remains the largest school of Buddhism in Peru, other schools such as the Diamond form have begun to spread so that Peru has more than 50,000 practicing Buddhists. === Bahá'í Faith === {{main|Bahá'í Faith in Peru}} The Bahá'í Faith in Peru begins with references to Peru in Bahá'í literature as early as 1916, with the first [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'ís]] visiting as early as 1919. A functioning community wasn't founded in [[Peru]] until the 1930s with the beginning of the arrival of coordinated [[Pioneering (Bahá'í)|pioneers]] from the [[United States]]<ref name="alamb">{{cite book | last = Lamb | first = Artemus | title = The Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Latin America:Some Remembrances, English Revised and Amplified Edition | publisher = M L VanOrman Enterprises |date=November 1995 |location = 1405 Killarney Drive, West Linn OR, 97068, United States of America | url =http://bahai-library.com/lamb_bahai_latin_america}}</ref> which progressed into finding national Peruvian converts and achieved an independent national community in 1961.<ref name="stats">{{cite book |title = The Bahá'í Faith: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Bahá'í Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963 | publisher = [[Hand of the Cause|Hands of the Cause]] Residing in the Holy Land | year = 1963 | location = Haifa, Israel | pages = 19, 22, 23, 36, 46, 52, 109 | url =http://bahai-library.com/handscause_statistics_1953-63#22 | isbn = }}</ref> The [[Association of Religion Data Archives]] (relying mostly on the [[World Christian Encyclopedia]]) estimated some 41,000 Bahá'ís in 2005.<ref name="WCE-05">{{cite web| title = Most Baha'i Nations (2005) | work = QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions > |publisher = The Association of Religion Data Archives | year = 2005| url =http://www.thearda.com/QuickLists/QuickList_40c.asp |accessdate = 2009-07-04}}</ref> === Islam === {{main|Islam in Peru}} [[Image:Masjid Bab ul Islam en construcción.jpg|thumb|The [[Mosque Bab ul Islam]] under construction (April 2007)]] The statistics for Islam in Peru estimate a total [[Muslim]] population of 5,000, largely based in the capital of [[Lima, Peru]];<ref>Shaikh, Farzana. "Islam and Islamic groups: a worldwide reference guide", 1992</ref> a number which has remained static since 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrnet.org/system/files/library/islam_in_latin_am.pdf |title=Islam in Latin America |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-10-20}}</ref> === Seax-Wica === <ref>http://worldwidewicca.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/informacion-de-la-religion-wicca-tradicion-sajona/</ref> Introduced in 2001, by Seax Gesith Ariel Phoenice, Witan of the Mimir's Well [[Seax-Wica|Seax Coven]] Perú. Today two covens exist in Lima city as well a coven in Arequipa City and another in Tacna City Bob. ==References== {{reflist}} {{South America topic|Religion in}} [[Category:Religion in Peru|*]]'