Sant Andreu observes Ramadan with a prayer room at the district headquarters.
The Sant Andreu District is fully committed to Ramadan 2026. It has created a programme of talks, lantern workshops, meals and gatherings, with space for prayer in a public facility.
Social media of the Sant Andreu Interculturality Service
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The programme of activities for Ramadan 2026 in the Sant Andreu District is driven by the district's Interculturality Service. This service promotes activities related to cultural diversity in the neighbourhoods. On its social media, however, Ramadan occupies a central place: both in 2025 and 2026 various activities linked to this religious festival are promoted, while no initiatives related to the cultural traditions inherent to the local calendar appear.
Neither St John, nor Carnival, nor St George, nor the district's main festivals feature at all. The proposals are entirely focused on Activities related to migrations and communities of African origin or Muslim tradition.. In contrast, there are no initiatives related to other communities present in the district, such as the Latin American, Chinese or European communities. Nor are there any activities linked to any religion other than Islam. The pattern is clear: the interculturality service talks about diversity, but all the activities it promotes revolve around Islam and African immigration.
In this context, the Interculturality Service has created a specific programme of activities dedicated to Ramadan for 2026. which has been distributed in Catalan, Spanish and Arabic. The majority of the acts linked to religion They take place at the same premises as the Sant Andreu District, in Plaça Orfila.. The programme includes various training and outreach activities such as the talk «The psychological and community perspective of the practice of Ramadan», held in the Plenary Hall of the district headquarters; and the training «»Nutrition and Ramadan", specifically aimed at healthcare professionals to address how to reconcile religion with medical practice. The calendar also incorporates children's activities, like a lantern-making workshop. Islamophobia is addressed through an event linked to the International Day of Struggle Against Islamophobia. The programme is rounded off with a subsidised community iftar scheduled for 7 March in Trinity Park.
The district headquarters hosts a call to prayer and prayer.
The talk «The psychological and community perspective of the practice of Ramadan»The event, held in the Plenary Hall of the Sant Andreu District, concluded with a communal iftar, as indicated in the programme. The iftar was preceded by the call to prayer and a collective prayer.And so it was done, according to the images that the Interculturality Service has published on its social media. This implies that the event included the performance of religious practices in a municipal facility before the free distribution of food among the attendees.
According to the footage recorded during the event and published on the district's social media channels, Several men laid mats on the ground and gathered to perform the collective prayer. before breaking the fast. In this way, A dependency of the district headquarters was used as a prayer space. as normal.
District training to adapt public services to Islam
Part of the Sant Andreu District's Ramadan programme It is aimed at Western public service professionals. to integrate the needs of Muslims into professional practice. Among these activities are training sessions for healthcare professionals and teachers to explain how to manage fasting in a medical context and how to take Ramadan into account in the ordinary running of schools. In the healthcare sector, The Interculturality Service already organised a session at the CUAP Casernes de Sant Andreu. with Islamic nutritionist Hadia Bakkali, dedicated to explaining how to adapt medical care for patients observing Ramadan. The training covered how to adjust meal, hydration and medication timings so that patients can maintain their fast, which during the holy month can involve up to 14 hours without consuming either food or water.
The same person was responsible for explaining at the district headquarters how to adapt schools for Ramadan. This training is part of the sessions organised by the Barcelona City Council, through the Office for Religious Affairs. The sessions follow the guidelines set out in the guide «Orientations for Educational Centres during Ramadan», which has been distributed to schools across the city. In this guide Schools are asked to refrain from making music or dancing during the holy month so as not to offend religious sensibilities.. In the presentation shown during the session at Sant Andreu, concrete measures were proposed to adapt the school to religion: as can be seen on social media, It is requested that the teaching staff be informed about Ramadan, that workshops be organised to explain this festival to students, that the physical education timetables be reconsidered, that alternative activities be offered to students who are fasting, and that families be informed of these arrangements.s.
The programme also includes Activities aimed at children to familiarise them with the symbols and traditions associated with the religious festival.. Among them is a workshop for making Ramadan lanterns, one of the traditional decorations associated with this festival in various Muslim countries.
The set of activities shows To what extent has Ramadan entered the district's institutional programme? and the centrality of religion in the Interculturality Service of Barcelona City Council. The calendar includes training sessions to adapt public services, community events, educational activities and a religious celebration with prayer and the breaking of the fast at the district headquarters. All of this is organised by the Interculturality Service as part of its cultural diversity management policy.
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