Prayer times in Ecuador

Ecuador has a small Muslim community estimated at less than 0.05 percent of the population, numbering approximately 2,000 to 4,000 adherents. The community is concentrated in Quito, Guayaquil, and the Pacific port city of Manta, and is composed primarily of Levantine Arab descendants (Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian) who migrated in the early twentieth century, more recent Pakistani and Iranian residents, and a growing native Ecuadorian convert population, including a notable contingent within the indigenous Otavalo and Andean communities of the Sierra. The Centro Islámico del Ecuador in Quito, founded in 1994, operates the country's first mosque, the Mezquita As-Salam. The community in Guayaquil maintains a smaller masjid. There is no state Islamic authority, and the community is too small to support a formal Islamic school within Ecuador. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Ecuador, consistent with Latin American regional practice. The community maintains ongoing links with Argentine, Brazilian, and Colombian Muslim networks for religious education, halal certification, and Eid coordination.