Prayer times in Macedonia

North Macedonia has a Muslim community of approximately 32 percent of the population per the 2021 census, numbering roughly 580,000 people, the largest Muslim share of any non-Muslim-majority European Union candidate state. The community is composed predominantly of ethnic Albanians (the largest single group, concentrated in the western and northwestern parts of the country including Tetovo, Gostivar, Kumanovo, Skopje, and Struga), Turks, Bosniaks, Roma Muslims, and Macedonian-speaking Muslims (Torbeshi). The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school, with a notable Bektashi Sufi presence anchored in the Harabati Baba Tekke in Tetovo, one of the most important Bektashi centers in the Balkans, dating to the early sixteenth century. The Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Skopje, built in 1492, and the Painted Mosque (Šarena Džamija) in Tetovo, originally built in 1438 and rebuilt in 1833 with its distinctive painted decorative scheme, are among the most architecturally significant Ottoman-era mosques in the Balkans. The Islamic Religious Community of North Macedonia is the recognized national authority. eSalah uses the MWL default; the Diyanet method is alternate.