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15 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1447 AH
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Prayer times in Lithuania

Default method: mwl · Capital: Vilnius · 11 regions indexed

Lithuania has a small Muslim community estimated at approximately 0.1 percent of the population, numbering roughly 3,000 to 5,000 adherents. The community has remarkable historical depth: the Lipka Tatars (Lithuanian Tatars) settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the late fourteenth century onward under Grand Duke Vytautas the Great, and have maintained continuous Muslim practice for over six centuries — among the oldest established Muslim communities in Europe outside Iberia and the Balkans. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school, though six centuries of geographical separation from the wider Muslim world have given it distinctive features including Polish-Lithuanian-Tatar liturgical practices. The Kaunas Mosque, built in 1933, was the first new mosque in independent Lithuania. The Raižiai, Nemėžis, and Keturiasdešimt Totorių (Forty Tatars) wooden mosques are the oldest surviving Tatar wooden mosques in Lithuania, with origins in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Spiritual Centre of Sunni Muslims of Lithuania (Lietuvos Musulmonų Sunitų Dvasinis Centras — Muftiatas) is the recognized authority. eSalah uses the MWL default; Diyanet alternate.

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