Prayer times in Uganda

Uganda has a Muslim community of approximately 13.7 percent of the population per the 2014 census, numbering roughly 5.6 million people. The community is concentrated in the central, eastern, and Buganda regions, with significant communities in Kampala, Mbale, Iganga, and the Buganda kingdom heartland. The community has notable historical depth in central Africa: Islam arrived in Buganda in the 1840s through Arab and Swahili traders from Zanzibar, and several nineteenth-century Buganda kings (especially Mutesa I, who reigned 1856–1884) maintained close engagement with Islamic scholars before the substantial Christianization that followed European missions. The community is overwhelmingly Sunni of the Shafi'i school with a Hanafi minority, reflecting both East African coastal and South Asian heritage. The Old Kampala Mosque (the Uganda National Mosque, formerly known as the Gaddafi National Mosque before the 2011 fall of the Libyan government), opened in 2007 with Libyan funding, is the largest mosque in East Africa, with a capacity of over 35,000. The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) is the principal national umbrella body. eSalah uses the MWL default for Uganda.