Prayer times in Guyana

Guyana has a Muslim community of approximately 6.4 percent of the population per the 2012 census, numbering roughly 50,000 people, the largest Muslim share of any country in mainland South America. The community is composed almost entirely of descendants of the indentured Indian laborers brought by the British colonial administration between 1838 and 1917 to work the sugar plantations after the abolition of slavery; approximately 16 percent of those laborers were Muslim, predominantly from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Punjab. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school. The Queenstown Jama Masjid in Georgetown, originally established in the late nineteenth century and rebuilt in 1894, is among the oldest mosques in the country. The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), founded in 1979, is the principal national body and operates schools, halal certification, and zakat distribution programs. The Guyana United Sad'r Islamic Anjuman (GUSIA) and the Guyana Islamic Trust are also major organizations. eSalah uses the Karachi method as the default for Guyana given the South Asian Hanafi heritage of the community.