Samoa's imam Husam-Aldin Stanley is not used to the spotlight in the overwhelmingly Christian Pacific Island nation.
Each week, his small, low-profile mosque quietly welcomes Muslims for Friday prayers on the outskirts of the capital Apia.
"We're just living our own life in a peaceful way," he said.
"That's why many people don't know Islam has been in this country for more than 30 years."
Non-Christians are a minority in the nation of 220,000 people, and Mr Stanley estimates about 200 Muslims live in Samoa.
But the country's prime minister has thrown the future of its religious minorities into doubt after flagging potential restrictions on non-Christian faiths last month.
Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Fosi Schmidt said he wanted to stop Samoa encountering the same religious divisions as "neighbouring countries", and in the Middle East.
"It may not be happening now, but there will come a time when a large number could gather under a non-Christian religion in Samoa. Then we will face what we do not wish to see," he said.
"This is what we now see — it is the very thing that causes unrest and leads nations into conflict, even to the shedding of blood over matters of faith."
Laaulialemalietoa has asked the nation's peak Christian body, the Samoa Council of Churches, to advise him on the country's religious freedom laws.
But it remains unclear how the prime minister intends to change Samoa's religious freedom protections — and how this would affect its religious minorities.
"I am prepared to take the necessary actions on what Samoa decides — perhaps through a referendum or national discussion — to consider amending the constitution regarding the freedom of religion," he said.
The prime minister, who has gained a loyal voting base with his devout Christian public persona, is moving quickly to stamp his religious agenda on other parts of Samoan society .
His government has made weekly fasting and prayer mandatory for public servants.
In a surprise to some observers, it also announced Samoa would open an embassy in Jerusalem, months after Laaulialemalietoa declared at his inauguration that his nation "stood with Israel".
And as the prime minister raised the potential restrictions on non-Christian faiths last month, he announced a ban on construction work on Sundays.
"No-one is permitted to use any loud machines on Sunday," he said.
"This is the situation now: foreigners have come and are working on our Sundays, disregarding our faith."
New PM's 'radical approach' to religion
Experts say Laaulialemalietoa's actions are unsurprising in some ways for a politician who campaigned heavily on his religious beliefs last year.
"At the same time, the way that it's unfolding and all of these measures put in place at the same time is very concerning," Samoan journalist and scholar Lagipoiva Dr Cherelle Jackson told the ABC's Pacific Beat.
"[This] seems very radical an approach, and it seems to be the way that the current prime minister is approaching national policy from a very religious-based perspective."
Laaulialemalietoa's pro-Christian agenda is likely to be popular with his base of fervent supporters, some of whom to lead the country.
But Lagipoiva said others in Samoa will have concerns about his policies.
"Religious freedom is part of any democratic government," she said.
For decades, Samoa's small population of Muslims, Baha'i and other religious communities have practised their faith peacefully alongside its Christians.
Nanai Dr Iati Iati, a Victoria University of Wellington expert in Samoan politics, said he had not heard of conflict between Christians and non-Christians in Samoa.
"At the end of the day Samoans come together as Samoans, understanding there are different beliefs among them but what unites them is our traditions, our culture," he said.
Mr Stanley said Samoa's Muslim community respected freedom of worship.
"We are not forcing anyone [to join]. If anyone wants to join Islam, they can," he said.
"If anyone wants to ask a question only, wants to understand, of course we will give them answers and then they can practise their own religion."
But the government's announcements about weekly fasting and prayer have left him "a little bit scared".
"I don't know what will happen because we are the minority here, so we don't have that much power with some voice to speak up.
"The government, they strongly support Christians all the way."
The ABC approached Laaulialemalietoa's office but it didn't respond to questions before deadline.
A step too far for Samoans?
Samoa has increasingly favoured Christianity in its policies, according to United States-based non-partisan think tank the Pew Research Center.
In 2011, the Samoan government began enforcing an education policy making Christian instruction mandatory in public primary schools, the centre found in a 2019 report on religious freedom.
Samoa's parliament also amended the constitution in 2017 to declare it a Christian nation — a statement previously confined to its preamble.
But despite the changes, the country's constitution still guarantees freedom of religion.
Speaking last month, Laaulialemalietoa said he believed conflicts overseas — including between Israel and Hamas — showed this needed to change.
"It's all about belief. We see this now in Gaza, and in the people of God in Israel," he said.
"Looking ahead to Samoa's future, we must be cautious, holding firmly to the belief that unites us under our father in heaven.
"If another church were to come and declare that there is a different god apart from Samoa's God, then in my time of serving as the leader of the country and prime minister, this matter must be addressed."
Nanai said momentum had built for decades in Samoan politics for enforcing more Christian religious observance.
"With what you see in the United States, over in the Middle East, and this polarising towards certain traditional faiths versus non-Christian faiths, that has come together with this snowballing effect that we've seen in Samoan politics for a while to bring about this situation where [the prime minister] feels that it's time to make these changes."
Opposition leader Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, who as prime minister oversaw the 2017 constitutional change, said a previous commission of inquiry led by the then-Council of Churches chair recommended against removing guarantees on religious freedom.
Tuila'epa said he did not believe a ban on non-Christian faiths would proceed, because Laaulialemalietoa lacked the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to change the constitution.
"Not one of our [Human Rights Protection Party] caucus endorses the recommendation," Tuila'epa told the ABC.
Bal Kama, a lawyer and academic specialising in Pacific affairs who has written previously about Samoa's constitution, said Laaulialemalietoa had proposed the ban without considering the broader, non-religious causes of conflicts involving religious groups overseas, or Samoa's own experiences of diverse faiths.
"Events elsewhere shouldn't become pure drivers of domestic reform. Domestic reform has to be based on domestic context and the domestic situation," Mr Kama said.
He called for the Samoan government to consult other groups contributing to society, other than church leaders, including women's groups, professionals and young people.
"There has to be a larger conversation. Any reform that will impact on the community needs to have a larger consultation to reach an amicable way forward," he said.
While religion was never far from politics in Samoa, Nanai said the new government's proposals took the close relationship of church and state a step further.
"Bible-based Christianity does try to separate the two spheres, of what belongs to God and what belongs to government," he said.
"Samoans probably want to have a discussion as to whether these proposals bring those two spheres too close together."
