LB
Prayer times in Lebanon
Default method:
egyptian-bis · Capital: Beirut
· 6 regions indexed
Lebanon has a Muslim community of approximately 67.6 percent of the population per recent estimates (no recent official census has been conducted since 1932), comprising a Sunni community (roughly 30 percent of the total population, predominantly Hanafi and Shafi'i, concentrated in Tripoli, Sidon, Akkar, and parts of Beirut), a Twelver Shia community (roughly 30 percent, concentrated in the south, the Bekaa Valley, and the southern suburbs of Beirut), and a Druze community (roughly 5 percent, concentrated in the Chouf and Hasbaya districts; the Druze are a heterodox community of Islamic origin whose categorization as Muslim is contested within the community itself). The Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in central Beirut, opened in 2008, is the largest Sunni mosque in the country. The Mosque of Sayyida Khawla in Baalbek and the Mosque of Sayyidah al-Sham in Damascus (cross-border pilgrimage) anchor Shia ziyara networks. The Dar al-Fatwa is the Sunni religious authority and the Islamic Shia Higher Council represents the Shia community. eSalah uses the Egyptian-bis method.