Prayer times in Botswana

Botswana has a small Muslim community estimated at less than 1 percent of the population, numbering several thousand adherents. The community is composed primarily of South Asian (Gujarati and Pakistani) traders who settled during the colonial period and post-independence, alongside a smaller East African (Kenyan and Tanzanian) component and a growing convert population among the Tswana. The community is predominantly Sunni of the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools, with the Gujarati component including some Bohra and Khoja Ismaili presence. The Gaborone Central Mosque (Jamia Masjid) is the principal congregational mosque of the capital, and the Lobatse and Francistown communities maintain older mosques dating to the early twentieth-century trader migration. The Botswana Muslim Association is the national umbrella body. There is no state Islamic authority, and the country's strong secular constitution provides religious freedom. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Botswana; the South African Hanafi-leaning timetables published by the Jamiatul Ulama may serve as a useful regional cross-reference.