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 support of the King of Castile) came and fought the local Guanches, who were further decimated. The islands of Fuerteventura and El Hierro were later similarly conquered. In 1477, a decision by the royal council of Castile confirmed a grant of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, with the smaller islands of Ferro and Gomera to the Castilian nobles Herrera, who held their fief until the end of the 18th century. In 1585, the Ottoman admiral Murat Reis temporarily seized Lanzarote. In the 17th century, pirates raided the island and took 1,000 inhabitants into slavery in Cueva de los Verdes. From 1730 to