Haji Dukuray was used to driving the 200 miles from his home in Delaware to the Bronx to see his niece’s beautiful young family.

But when Dukuray made the drive Monday, there were no smiling faces to greet him.

The entire family of five — Dukuray’s 37-year-old niece, Haja Dukureh; her husband who shares his name, Haji Dukuray, 49; and their three kids, Mustapha Dukureh, 12, Mariam Dukureh, 11, and Fatoumata Dukureh, 5 — were among the 17 people killed within minutes in Sunday’s horrific apartment building fire.

“We have faith, so we’re holding onto our faith,” the heartbroken uncle told The Post on Tuesday. “We are hanging in there as much as we can. We’re supporting each other.”

Dukuray said he spoke with his shattered sister, his niece’s mother, earlier Tuesday.

“‘I’m going to leave everything in the Lord’s hands, the Lord knows best,’” Dukuray recalled her saying.

“We prayed for her, and we prayed for the entire family.”

Dukuray, who had countless relatives living in the 19-story high-rise at the time of the blaze, said, “Initially, I received a call that there was a fire in the building in the Bronx.

“Even though I live in Bear, I’m always in the Bronx because I have so many relatives there. But I didn’t get the information about what building it was until later in the day,” he said.

Dukuray said his relatives had not previously relayed to him any safety issues or concerning conditions at the high-rise.

“I never got any direct complaints from them,” he said.

Dukuray proceeded to “make a few phone calls” to his family but couldn’t reach them.

He then spoke to a local imam, Musa Kabba from Masjid-Ur-Rahmah on Webster Avenue, where many of the building’s residents worship. Kabba said he was already at a hospital and trying to track them down, according to Dukuray.

“He pretty much told me they couldn’t find my niece and my nephew,” Dukuray said.

It turns out the family of five had been wiped out. No one else in Dukuray’s large family is known to have been killed in the fire, although it was unclear if any relatives were among the scores hospitalized.

Dukuray said his extended family, originally from The Gambia in West Africa, are now mulling where to bury the victims. The family had not yet received their bodies, he said.

“We are actually having a family meeting, and we’ll make that decision as a family, collectively, on what the next step will be,” Dukuray said. “We’ll determine whether they’ll be buried in The Bronx or be taken back to The Gambia.”

Both state and federal officials have promised to help the families of the fire’s victims cover funeral costs.

Mayor Eric Adams said during a press briefing Monday that President Biden reached out to him to offer support to the residents who lost everything.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday she should make sure her new budget includes compensation for the victims and their families, promising that the residents of the building would not be forgotten.

Dukuray insisted his “tight-knit” Muslim family would rely on religion to cope with the city’s deadliest blaze in more than three decades.

Many of the building’s residents are immigrants from The Gambia.

The local Gambian community has rallied in support of the victims, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for their neighbors in need and collaborating with the city and state to help their people access emergency services.