Prayer times in Turkey

Turkey is a Muslim-majority country with approximately 99.2 percent of the population identifying as Muslim, predominantly Sunni of the Hanafi school (approximately 75 to 80 percent of Turkish Muslims), with a substantial Alevi community of roughly 15 to 20 percent (a distinctive heterodox Twelver Shia-derived tradition with Sufi and pre-Islamic Anatolian influences, whose religious classification is complex and sometimes contested within the community itself), and smaller Twelver Shia (Caferi) and Bektashi communities. The country contains many of the most architecturally and historically significant mosques in the Islamic world. The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (originally a sixth-century Byzantine cathedral, converted to a mosque in 1453, museum from 1935, reconverted to a mosque in 2020) and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque, completed 1616) define the Istanbul skyline. The Süleymaniye Mosque (1557, by Mimar Sinan) is widely regarded as the architect's masterpiece. The Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) oversees Turkey's roughly 90,000 mosques. eSalah uses the Diyanet method (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°), the official parameters.