Prayer times in Cyprus

Cyprus has a Muslim community of approximately 18 to 25 percent of the total island population, comprising the Turkish Cypriot community concentrated in the northern portion of the island administered as the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (recognized internationally only by Turkey). The Turkish Cypriot community is Sunni Muslim of the Hanafi school, with a strongly secular orientation inherited from the late Ottoman and Kemalist Turkish traditions. Within the Republic of Cyprus (south), there is a smaller Muslim community of approximately 1 to 2 percent composed of recent migrants and the small remaining Turkish Cypriot community. The Hala Sultan Tekke in Larnaca, built around 1816 on the burial site of Umm Haram, an aunt of the Prophet Muhammad who died in the seventh-century Umayyad campaign on Cyprus, is one of the most venerated sites of Islamic pilgrimage in the eastern Mediterranean. The Selimiye Mosque (formerly the Cathedral of Saint Sophia) in northern Nicosia is the principal congregational mosque. eSalah uses the Diyanet method as the default for Cypriot cities given the predominant Turkish heritage; MWL is offered as an alternate.