Alfragide is a parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 in the municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of Amadora

Amadora

Amadora is a city and a municipality in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias . With an area of 23.77 km², it is the most densely populated municipality of Portugal...

, with 1.35 square kilometers of area and 8 739 inhabitants (2001). Density: 6 478.1 km ².

Its patron

Patrón

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 Our Lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...

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In the extreme south of the parish is located in the first IKEA

IKEA

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 store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of Lisbon

Lisbon

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. This shopping area also extends to the parishes of Buraca

Buraca

Buraca is a parish in the municipality of Amadora. It has and 16,061 inhabitants and an area of 1.66 square kilometers, as of 2001.Its patron is Our Lady Mother of God....

 and, specially, Carnaxide

Carnaxide

Carnaxide is a town near Lisbon, located in Oeiras Municipality, Portugal, with a population of 21,353 inhabitants, a total area of 6,63 km² and a density of 3,220.7 hab/km². It was elevated to town on August 16, 1991....

 (Oeiras).