Prayer times in Jamaica

Jamaica has a small Muslim community estimated at less than 0.1 percent of the population, numbering perhaps 5,000 to 8,000 adherents. The community has notable historical depth, with origins reaching back to the West African Muslim slaves transported to British Jamaica from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries; documentary evidence survives of figures such as Abu Bakr al-Siddiq al-Kanemi (born ca. 1791 in Timbuktu, enslaved in Jamaica, and the author of an Arabic-language autobiography). The contemporary community is largely composed of Caribbean-born converts since the 1950s and indentured Indian (predominantly Punjabi and Gujarati) migration in the late nineteenth century, alongside more recent immigrants from Guyana, Trinidad, and South Asia. The Islamic Council of Jamaica is the principal national umbrella body. The Masjid Hussein in Kingston and the masjid in Spanish Town serve as principal congregational centers. There is no state Islamic authority. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Jamaica, consistent with Caribbean regional practice.