Prayer times in Vanuatu

Vanuatu has a very small Muslim community estimated at well under 0.1 percent of the population, numbering perhaps 200 to 400 adherents in an archipelago of approximately 320,000. The community is composed of a small number of resident professionals from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Middle East, and a notable native Ni-Vanuatu convert population centered on the Mele village outside Port Vila and small communities on Tanna and Pentecost islands, where local converts have built indigenous-style mosques over the past two decades. The Vanuatu Islamic Society and the Mele Mosque (the country's first purpose-built mosque, opened in 2010) are the principal community institutions. There is no state Islamic authority. eSalah uses the Muslim World League default for Vanuatu, consistent with broader Pacific regional practice; the Kemenag-Indonesia method is offered as an alternate given that the community has substantial educational ties with Indonesian, Malaysian, and Australian Muslim networks. The community has been studied by anthropologists as one of the most distinctive recent Pacific convert communities, with conversion patterns reflecting indigenous engagement with Islamic ideas through Australian and Indonesian outreach networks since the 1970s.