How prayer times on Pray Digital are maintained

Where the times come from

Pray Digital does not calculate prayer times. Each mosque's own timetable is the source, and it reaches us one of two ways:

• From the mosque's published timetable. For mosques whose timetable is published on their own website, we read the times from it, so what you see here follows what the mosque itself has announced.
• From the community. A mosque's representatives or members can submit its schedule. Submissions are reviewed before they are published, which is how a correction reaches everyone at once instead of leaving a stale timetable up.

This is deliberate. A calculated time is only as good as the convention behind it, and the convention that matters is the one the people praying there actually follow.

Adhan and Iqamah

A mosque may publish the adhan (the call to prayer) or the iqamah (the start of the congregation), and many publish both. The table shows the time the mosque publishes; where a mosque gives only one, only one is shown. Check with the mosque if you need to know which of the two a particular row refers to — practice varies.

Why two mosques in the same suburb can differ

Mosques close together often show times minutes apart, and that is not a mistake. Different mosques follow different calculation conventions, and they set their own iqamah — the gap between the adhan and the congregation is a local decision. Pray Digital publishes what each mosque says rather than imposing one answer on all of them.

Maghrib as "minutes after sunset"

Some mosques state Maghrib as an offset — for example 5 minutes after sunset — rather than a clock time, because sunset moves through the year. Where a mosque publishes it that way, the schedule shows it that way, so the entry stays correct as the days change.

Jumu'ah, and more than one sitting

Larger mosques often hold two or more Friday congregations to fit everyone in. Each sitting is listed separately, as Juma 1, Juma 2 and so on. A mosque that holds a single Jumu'ah shows one row.

When a time changes

Schedules on Pray Digital carry the date they were last updated. When a mosque's timetable changes, the update is reviewed and published, and anyone following that mosque can be notified of the change rather than discovering it at the door.

If a time looks wrong

Tell us. Use Feature Requests or Contact Us and say which mosque and which prayer, and the change goes through the same review as any other submission. If you represent the mosque, you can submit the corrected schedule yourself. For the definitive time — especially on a day when the timetable shifts — confirm with the mosque.

What we never do

We do not estimate a time, and we do not fill a gap with a neighbouring mosque's schedule. If a mosque has not published a time, the row says N/A, because an invented time is worse than an honest gap.

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