most residents of coburg are members of the evangelical church (lutheranism). other christian communities are baptists, seventh-day adventists, the icf movement, jehovah's witnesses, catholics, old catholics and the new apostolic church, as well as the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. there are also three communities of muslims. coburg had a large jewish community until the 1940s. jews have lived there since the 14th century. the old synagogue was a former church. today it is used by old catholics. coburg became protestant after the reformation. all catholics were persecuted. a new catholic community was founded in the 19th century.