Most Jamaicans are Protestant. The largest denominations are the Seventh-day Adventist and Pentecostal churches; a smaller but still significant number of religious adherents belong to various denominations using the name Church of God.

What are the four main religions in Jamaica?

Religion in JamaicaProtestant (64.8%)Roman Catholic (2.2%)Jehovahs Witness (1.9%)Rastafari (1.1%)None (21.3%)Other (6.5%)Unspecified (2.3%)

What is Jamaicas most popular religion?

Although Protestantism is currently the most popular religion in the country, Christianity was introduced in Jamaica in the form of Roman Catholicism.

What do most Jamaicans believe in?

Religion is an important part of life for Jamaicans. More than 80 percent are Christian. Most practice Anglicanism, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism. The Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Bahai religions are also practiced, as is Rastafarianism.

Does Jamaicans believe in God?

Rastafarians believe that God makes himself known through humanity. According to Jagessar there must be one man in whom he exists most eminently and completely, and that is the supreme man, Rastafari, Selassie I.

What percentage of Jamaica is Islam?

0.2% DefinitionsSTATAMOUNTRANKMembers5,58061st out of 195Protestant percent60%17th out of 58Percentage Muslim0.2%143th out of 167Jehovahs Witnesses11,17466th out of 17711 more rows

How did Islam come to Jamaica?

The first Muslims in Jamaica were West African Moors captured in the Reconquista sold as slaves to traders, and brought to Jamaica on ships. By the time the slaves were liberated, much of the Muslim faith of the past had faded, and the freed slaves picked up the faith of their former slave masters.

Are there Arabs in Jamaica?

The indentured Muslims laid the foundation of the eight other masjids established in Jamaica since the 1960s, with the advent of an indigenous Jamaican Muslim community that now forms the majority of the Muslim populace on the island.