Prayer times in Fiji

Fiji has a Muslim community of approximately 6.3 percent of the population per the 2007 census, numbering roughly 55,000 to 60,000 people, comprising the second-largest religion in the country after Christianity. The community is composed almost entirely of descendants of the indentured Indian laborers brought to Fiji by the British colonial administration between 1879 and 1916 to work on sugar plantations; approximately 14 percent of the original 60,000 Girmitiya were Muslim, predominantly from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Punjab. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school, with smaller Deobandi and Barelvi divisions reflecting South Asian theological currents. The Mohammed Jama Mosque in Suva, originally built in 1900 and rebuilt in 1930, is the oldest mosque in the country. The Fiji Muslim League, founded in 1926, is the principal national body and operates schools and a network of mosques across Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. eSalah uses the Karachi method as the default for Fiji given the South Asian Hanafi heritage.