diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVectorUpdaterFactory.java b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVectorUpdaterFactory.java
index cce53001ea621..15d58f0c7572a 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVectorUpdaterFactory.java
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetVectorUpdaterFactory.java
@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ public ParquetVectorUpdater getUpdater(ColumnDescriptor descriptor, DataType spa
           return new FixedLenByteArrayAsLongUpdater(arrayLen);
         } else if (canReadAsBinaryDecimal(descriptor, sparkType)) {
           return new FixedLenByteArrayUpdater(arrayLen);
+        } else if (sparkType == DataTypes.BinaryType) {
+          return new FixedLenByteArrayUpdater(arrayLen);
         }
         break;
       default:
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
index 6f271bca36ab5..bb0df3639dcd8 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ class ParquetToSparkSchemaConverter(
           case _: DecimalLogicalTypeAnnotation =>
             makeDecimalType(Decimal.maxPrecisionForBytes(parquetType.getTypeLength))
           case _: IntervalLogicalTypeAnnotation => typeNotImplemented()
+          case null => BinaryType
           case _ => illegalType()
         }
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetIOSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetIOSuite.scala
index fea986cc8e2de..df96403ac5071 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetIOSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetIOSuite.scala
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import org.apache.parquet.hadoop._
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.example.ExampleParquetWriter
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.CompressionCodecName
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.CompressionCodecName.GZIP
+import org.apache.parquet.io.api.Binary
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.{MessageType, MessageTypeParser}
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SPARK_VERSION_SHORT, SparkException, TestUtils}
@@ -111,6 +112,41 @@ class ParquetIOSuite extends QueryTest with ParquetTest with SharedSparkSession
     }
   }
 
+  test("SPARK-41096: FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY support") {
+    Seq(true, false).foreach { dictionaryEnabled =>
+      def makeRawParquetFile(path: Path): Unit = {
+        val schemaStr =
+          """message root {
+            |  required FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY(1) a;
+            |  required FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY(3) b;
+            |}
+        """.stripMargin
+        val schema = MessageTypeParser.parseMessageType(schemaStr)
+
+        val writer = createParquetWriter(schema, path, dictionaryEnabled)
+
+        (0 until 10).map(_.toString).foreach { n =>
+          val record = new SimpleGroup(schema)
+          record.add(0, Binary.fromString(n))
+          record.add(1, Binary.fromString(n + n + n))
+          writer.write(record)
+        }
+        writer.close()
+      }
+
+      withTempDir { dir =>
+        val path = new Path(dir.toURI.toString, "part-r-0.parquet")
+        makeRawParquetFile(path)
+        Seq(true, false).foreach { vectorizedReaderEnabled =>
+          readParquetFile(path.toString, vectorizedReaderEnabled) { df =>
+            checkAnswer(df, (48 until 58).map(n => // char '0' is 48 in ascii
+              Row(Array(n), Array(n, n, n))))
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   test("string") {
     val data = (1 to 4).map(i => Tuple1(i.toString))
     // Property spark.sql.parquet.binaryAsString shouldn't affect Parquet files written by Spark SQL