Equatorial Guinea is a Christian majority country, with Islam being a minority religion. Due to the secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country.^[1]

In the 2021 Aid to the Church in Need religious freedom report it was estimated that 4.1% of the population were muslims.^[1] Previous estimates by the official press agency of Equatorial Guinea in 2015 reported that 3.5% of the population were muslim^[2] and the U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report 2006 found that practitioners of Islam comprised less than 1 percent of the population.^[3]

Malabo Mosque was opened in 2015 and can accommodate two thousand people.^[2] On 2 May 2022, over 500 muslims gathered on the Malabo promenade to pray and celebrate the end of Ramadan known as Eid al-Fitr after not being able to perform these prayers at the end of the fasting month in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions.^[4] Equatorial Guinea's imam Pedro Benigno Matute Tang said that the main message for 2022 was that muslims must love one another and educate their children because a "well-educated child, with discipline, cannot adhere to vandalism groups".^[5]