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In today's world the religion in Egypt is predominantly Islam. There is a 10% population of Coptic Christians which is a Church only found in Egypt.

In ancient times, Egyptians were a polytheistic nation who had gods like Amun, Ra, Osiris, Ptah, Bast, Khnum, Muut, Nuut, Sobek and Anubis to name but a few. Everything was connected to nature in some way, especially in relation to the river Nile.

Egypt official religion is Islam. Egypt is a Muslim majority country with Muslims amount to 78.5 millions that constitute 94.6% of Egypt total population and 5% of world Muslim population. This is according to Pew Forum study as of October 2009 (Refer to related link below).
About 90% of Egypt's population is Muslim with a Sunni majority. About 9% of the population is Coptic Christian, other religions and other forms of Christianity comprise the remaining one percent.

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