Prayer times in Bahrain

Bahrain is a Muslim-majority kingdom in which Islam is the state religion. Approximately 73 to 75 percent of the citizen population is Muslim (the figure is lower when expatriate workers are included), with a Twelver Shia majority among Bahraini citizens (estimated at 60 to 70 percent of nationals) and a Sunni minority concentrated in the ruling Al Khalifa family and allied tribes. The country has a long-standing pluralist Islamic culture; the Al-Khamis Mosque on the outskirts of Manama, dated to the late seventh or early eighth century with later Umayyad and Abbasid additions, is among the oldest mosques in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The Al-Fateh Grand Mosque in Manama, completed in 1988, is the largest mosque in the country. The Sunni Awqaf and the Jaafari Awqaf are separate state-affiliated bodies that administer religious endowments and mosque appointments for each community. eSalah uses the Gulf-90 method (Fajr 18.5°, Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib) for Bahraini cities. Bahrain is flagged for sectarian sensitivity in §8 review.