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Prayer times in Greenland
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mwl · Capital: Nuuk
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Greenland has a very small Muslim community estimated at well under 0.05 percent of the population, numbering perhaps 30 to 50 adherents in an autonomous Danish territory of approximately 56,000. The community is composed of resident professionals and migrants from the Middle East and South Asia, with a small number of converts. There is no purpose-built mosque on the island, and Friday prayers when held are typically conducted in private homes or rented community spaces in Nuuk, the capital. There is no state Islamic authority, and the community is too small to support any formal religious institution. The Greenlandic Muslim community is among the most demographically isolated in the world, and most religious life-cycle events are conducted with online or in-person assistance from Danish Muslim community networks in Copenhagen, with which most residents have ongoing administrative ties. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Greenland but flags the country for high-latitude rule application: at latitudes above the Arctic Circle the standard astronomical Fajr and Isha do not occur for parts of the year, and one of the high-latitude rules (1/7th-night, angle-based, or aqrab-al-bilad) must be applied.