Editing Langenthal (section)

==Religion==
From the {{as of|2000|alt=2000 census}}, 2,610 or 18.5% were [[Roman Catholic]], while 8,338 or 59.2% belonged to the [[Swiss Reformed Church]]. Of the rest of the population, 281 (2.00%) were members of an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox church]], 14 individuals (0.10%) who belonged to the [[Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland|Christian Catholic Church]], and 919 individuals (6.53%) adhered to some other Christian church; 847 individuals (6.02%) were [[Islam in Switzerland|Muslim]] 158 individuals were [[Hinduism|Hindu]], 66 individuals were [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]
and 2 individuals (0.01%) were [[Judaism|Jewish]]. 8 individuals adhered to some other non-Christian religious group. 
794 (or about 5.64% of the population) were non-religious, and 494 individuals (or about 3.51% of the population) refused to state their religious adherence.<ref name=STAT2000/>

The local Muslim community was at the time in the process of planning a [[minaret]] for their "cultural centre" in 2009. This was one of the cases that fuelled the [[Minaret controversy in Switzerland]] which resulted in a successful vote on a proposed ban of minarets in November 2009.
In 2012, a local court ruled against the construction plans on reasons unrelated to the minaret ban (on purely technical grounds of construction laws). For some time, it seemed as if the Langenthal minaret would be the first case where the new minaret ban would be taken to court, the Langenthal Muslim community announcing to the press that they were going to appeal to the [[Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland]] and if necessary further to the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in [[Strasbourg]],<ref>[http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/schweiz/das_letzte_wort_ist_noch_laengst_nicht_gesprochen_1.4083683.html NZZ, 30 November 2009]</ref> but they dropped the issue in 2012.<ref>[http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Langenthaler-Muslime-verzichten-auf-umstrittenes-Minarett/story/30952040 Langenthaler Muslime verzichten auf umstrittenes Minarett] [[Tages-Anzeiger]] April 2012.</ref>