Prayer times in Syria

Syria is a Muslim-majority country with approximately 87 percent of the population identifying as Muslim, comprising a Sunni majority of approximately 74 percent (predominantly Hanafi and Shafi'i schools), an Alawite community of approximately 12 percent (a heterodox Shia-derived community whose Islamic identification is variously described in different scholarly traditions), a Twelver Shia community of approximately 3 percent (concentrated in Sayyida Zaynab district of Damascus, in eastern Syria, and along the Lebanese border), an Ismaili community of approximately 1 percent, and a Druze community of approximately 3 percent (a heterodox Islamic-derived community concentrated in the Jabal al-Druze in southern Syria). The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, originally constructed between 706 and 715 CE on the site of a Christian basilica which itself stood on the site of an earlier Aramean temple, is one of the oldest, largest, and most architecturally significant mosques in the Islamic world; it contains the shrine of John the Baptist and the head of Husayn ibn Ali. The Sayyida Ruqayya and Sayyida Zaynab Shrines in Damascus are major Shia pilgrimage destinations. eSalah uses Egyptian-bis. FLAGGED for §8.