Prayer times in Benin

Benin has a Muslim community of approximately 24 to 27 percent of the population, concentrated in the northern departments of Borgou, Alibori, and Atakora, with significant communities in Cotonou and Porto-Novo in the south. The community is predominantly Sunni of the Maliki school with a strong Tijaniyya Sufi presence inherited from nineteenth-century West African revivalist movements. Islam arrived in northern Benin (then the Dendi and Bariba kingdoms) through trans-Saharan trade in the medieval period and was reinforced by Hausa and Yoruba traders from Nigeria. The Grand Mosque of Porto-Novo, built in 1912 in a striking Afro-Brazilian baroque style by returnees from Brazil, is among the most architecturally distinctive mosques in West Africa. The Union Islamique du Bénin is the principal national federation. The country's syncretic religious landscape, in which Islam coexists with Christianity and Vodun, is reflected in considerable religious tolerance. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Benin; the Algerian method is offered as a regionally-tested alternate.