Prayer times in Bolivia

Bolivia has a small Muslim community estimated at well under 0.1 percent of the population, with several thousand adherents concentrated in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz, and Cochabamba. The community is composed of Levantine Arab descendants (Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian) who migrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more recent Pakistani and Iranian residents, and a notable contingent of Bolivian converts. The Centro Islámico Boliviano in Santa Cruz, founded in the 1990s, operates the country's first purpose-built mosque, named the Mezquita As-Salam. A second center, the Comunidad Islámica de Bolivia in La Paz, serves the highland community. There is no state Islamic authority, and the community is too small to support an Islamic school or formal religious education program. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Bolivia, consistent with Latin American practice; users in Santa Cruz may prefer the ISNA method. Most observant families travel to Argentina or Brazil for major religious life-cycle events.