Capital: Baghdad · Single time zone (AST, UTC+3) · home to Najaf and Karbala, two of the most visited Shia pilgrimage cities in the world.
METHOD: MUSLIM WORLD LEAGUE (MWL)Iraq sits between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the historic cradle of Mesopotamian civilisation, and today has one of the most religiously significant landscapes in the Muslim world — home to a substantial Shia-majority population alongside significant Sunni Arab and Kurdish communities, plus the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala that draw millions of Shia pilgrims annually, second only to Mecca and Medina in pilgrimage volume for many worshippers.
Iraq doesn't maintain its own dedicated national calculation method the way Egypt, Algeria or Morocco do, so the widely-used Muslim World League convention — common across much of the Arab world — is the practical standard applied by mosques, apps and this page alike.
Both are major Shia pilgrimage cities — Najaf houses the shrine of Imam Ali and Karbala the shrine of Imam Hussein — and draw large numbers of worshippers whose prayer schedules are tied closely to local mosque timetables.
No — Iraq doesn't publish its own dedicated calculation method, so the Muslim World League convention, widely used across the Arab world, is the practical default applied here.
The five daily prayers and their calculation are shared, though timing conventions for combining prayers and the exact Maghrib start can differ slightly by school of thought — a matter best confirmed with a local mosque or scholar.