Prayer times in Reunion

Réunion, an overseas department of France in the Indian Ocean, has a Muslim community of approximately 4 to 5 percent of the population, numbering roughly 35,000 to 45,000 adherents. The community is composed primarily of descendants of Indian Muslim migrants from Gujarat (predominantly the Surati Vohra and Memon communities) who arrived during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as traders rather than as indentured laborers (the indentured population on Réunion having been almost entirely Hindu Tamil), making Réunion's Indian Muslim community distinctive in the Indian Ocean region. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Hanafi school. The Noor-e-Islam Mosque in Saint-Denis, originally built in 1898 and rebuilt and expanded subsequently, is the oldest mosque in France (including its overseas departments) and is among the most architecturally significant Indo-Saracenic mosques in the western Indian Ocean. The community is well-integrated into the broader Réunion population and the Mauritius mosque networks. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Réunion; the UOIF method may be selected to align with metropolitan French timetables, and the Karachi method given the Hanafi heritage.