Prayer times in Cape Verde

Cape Verde has a very small Muslim community estimated at approximately 1 to 2 percent of the population, numbering several thousand adherents in an archipelago of approximately 560,000. The community is composed predominantly of West African migrants from Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, and Nigeria who settled during the post-independence period and especially since the 1990s, alongside a smaller Lebanese commercial component and a growing native Cape Verdean convert population. The community is predominantly Sunni of the Maliki school with a Tijaniyya Sufi presence reflecting West African origins. The Mesquita Central de Praia, in the capital, serves as the principal congregational center. The Comunidade Islâmica de Cabo Verde is the registered national umbrella body. There is no state Islamic authority, and the community is too small to support a formal Islamic school. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Cape Verde, consistent with West African Maliki practice; the Algerian and Egyptian methods are offered as regionally-tested alternates.