Prayer times in Belarus

Belarus has a small Muslim community estimated at approximately 0.2 to 0.3 percent of the population, numbering roughly 25,000 to 30,000 people. The community has a remarkable depth of history: the Lipka Tatars settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which encompassed modern Belarus) from the late fourteenth century onward and have maintained continuous Muslim practice for over six centuries, making them among the oldest established Muslim communities in Europe outside Iberia and the Balkans. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school. The Ivye Mosque, built in wood in the eighteenth century and reconstructed in the 1880s, is among the oldest surviving wooden mosques in Europe. The Minsk Cathedral Mosque, originally built in 1900, was demolished under Soviet rule and reconstructed in 2016 with Turkish state support. The Muslim Religious Association in the Republic of Belarus is the registered authority. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Belarus; the Diyanet method is offered as an alternate.