Prayer times in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a Muslim-majority country with approximately 93 percent of the population identifying as Muslim, predominantly Sunni of the Hanafi school with historical Sufi traditions including the Yasawiyya and Naqshbandi orders that arrived through Central Asian Turkic and Persian networks from the medieval period. The Turkmen state, like other post-Soviet Central Asian republics, has maintained a strict separation of religion and state inherited from the Soviet period and reinforced under heavily controlled post-1991 religious affairs frameworks. The Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque in Gypjak, opened in 2004 and described as the largest mosque in Central Asia at the time of its construction, is notable for the controversial inclusion of citations from the Ruhnama (the spiritual writings of the late President Saparmurat Niyazov) alongside Quranic inscriptions in its decorative scheme. The Mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar in the ruins of medieval Merv (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and the Mausoleum of Najmuddin Kubra in Konye-Urgench (founder of the Kubrawiyya Sufi order) are among the most significant historical Islamic sites. The Muftiate of Turkmenistan is the principal authority. eSalah uses MWL.