Religion in the Canary Islands de La Laguna, the latter is the only one in the Canary Islands built expressly as such. In the island of Gran Canaria there are three other centers: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Telde and Vecindario and one on the island of Fuerteventura in Puerto del Rosario. The Islam is currently the second religion most practiced in the archipelago after the Catholic. The Muslim communities were originally established definitively in the Canary Islands on Tenerife and Gran Canaria between the 19th and 20th centuries. Later on Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, and later on La Palma. Currently, the Islamic Federation of the
Lanzarote after the Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello, from which the modern name is derived. The island's name in the native language was Tyterogaka or Tytheroygaka, which may mean "one that is all ochre" (referring to the island's predominant colour). Lanzarote is located north-east of Fuerteventura and just over from Graciosa. The dimensions of the island are from north to south and from west to east. Lanzarote has of coastline, of which are sand, are beach, and the remainder is rocky. Its landscape includes the mountain ranges of Famara (671 metres or 2,201 feet) in the north and Ajaches () to the