Prayer times in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a Muslim-majority country with approximately 96 to 97 percent of the population identifying as Muslim, the majority of whom (around 65 to 75 percent) are Twelver Shia, with the remainder Sunni primarily of the Hanafi school. This makes Azerbaijan one of only a handful of Shia-majority states. The country preserves a strong secular state structure inherited from the Soviet period and reinforced under the post-1991 republic. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque outside Baku, originally built in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in 1998 after Soviet-era demolition, is among the most venerated Shia shrines in the Caucasus. The Heydar Mosque in Baku, completed in 2014, is the largest mosque in the country. The Caucasus Muslims Office (Qafqaz Müsəlmanları İdarəsi), based in Baku and led by Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh since 1980, is the recognized authority for both Shia and Sunni communities across the South Caucasus. eSalah uses the Tehran (Jafari) method as the appropriate calculation default for Azerbaijani cities given the Shia majority.