Prayer times in Laos

Laos has a very small Muslim community estimated at approximately 0.01 percent of the population, numbering perhaps 700 to 1,500 adherents in a country of approximately 7.5 million. The community is composed primarily of two distinct groups: the Cham (descendants of refugees from the Champa kingdom in Vietnam, with a longer historical presence) and South Asian (predominantly Tamil Muslim) traders who settled in Vientiane during the French colonial period and after, with a smaller component of recent Indonesian, Malaysian, and Pakistani residents. The Jamia Mosque in Vientiane, the principal masjid in the country, was established in the 1960s by the Tamil-origin community and serves as the primary congregational space for Friday prayers. There is no state Islamic authority. The community is too small to support a formal Islamic school, and major life-cycle events are typically conducted in coordination with mosque networks in neighboring Thailand, Vietnam, or Cambodia. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Laos, consistent with broader Southeast Asian Sunni practice; the Kemenag Indonesia method is offered as an alternate.