Prayer times in Nepal

Nepal has a Muslim community of approximately 4.4 percent of the population per the 2021 census, numbering roughly 1.3 million people. The community is concentrated along the southern Terai region bordering India (especially Banke, Bardiya, Kapilvastu, Rupandehi, Parsa, Bara, Rautahat, Sarlahi, Mahottari, Dhanusha, and Sunsari districts), with smaller urban communities in Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Janakpur. The community is composed predominantly of Madhesi Muslims (Indo-Aryan-speaking and ethnically related to the Muslim communities of the adjacent Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh) alongside smaller Kashmiri-origin (Kashmiri Muslim) and Tibetan-Burmese-language groups. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school with a notable Twelver Shia minority. The Kashmiri Takiya Mosque (Kashmiri Jama Masjid) in Kathmandu, traditionally dated to the seventeenth century during the reign of King Pratap Malla, is the oldest mosque in the country. The Nepal Islamic Council and the Muslim Federation of Nepal are the principal national umbrella bodies. eSalah uses the Karachi method as the default for Nepalese cities, consistent with regional Hanafi practice.