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 of Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello, who used the alias "Lanzarote da Framqua". A fort was later built in the area of Montaña de Guanapay near today's Teguise. Castilian slaving expeditions in 1385 and 1393 seized hundreds of Guanches and sold them in Spain, initiating the slave trade in the islands. French explorer Jean de Béthencourt arrived in 1402, heading a private expedition under Castilian auspices. Bethencourt first visited the south of Lanzarote at Playas de Papagayo, and the French overran the island within a matter of months. The island lacked mountains and gorges to serve as hideouts for the remaining