Prayer times in Mauritius

Mauritius has a Muslim community of approximately 17 percent of the population per the 2011 census, numbering roughly 218,000 people, the second-largest religious community in the country after Hinduism. The community is composed almost entirely of descendants of Indian indentured laborers brought to Mauritius by the British colonial administration between 1834 and 1910 to work the sugar plantations after the abolition of slavery; most originated from northern India (Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh) and a smaller portion from the Surat region of Gujarat. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school, with smaller Twelver Shia, Bohra, Khoja Ismaili, and Ahmadiyya communities of Gujarati origin. The Jummah Mosque in Port Louis, originally built in 1850 and rebuilt in 1900 in a striking Indo-Saracenic style with white minarets and green details, is among the most architecturally significant mosques in the western Indian Ocean. The Conseil Islamique de l'île Maurice and the Sunni Razvi Society are among the principal national bodies. eSalah uses Karachi for Mauritius given the South Asian Hanafi heritage.