About Manarat Al-Islam

Manarat Al-Islam is a prayer times website created to be a simple and fast reference for every Muslim who wants to know the time of the adhan in their city, wherever they live. We chose the name “Manara”, the minaret, because for centuries it was the place from which the adhan was called to announce the time of prayer, and we hope the site plays the same role in the age of smartphones.

Our mission

We believe every city deserves accurate prayer times of its own, instead of borrowing those of the nearest capital. The site started with every city, town and village of the 22 Arab countries in Arabic, and now covers 32,047 cities in 243 countries in seven languages. Each page shows today’s prayer times, a monthly timetable, seasonal estimates, the Qibla direction and the Ramadan schedule, free of charge and without registration.

Our data

Place names and coordinates come from the open GeoNames database, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Names are shown in the language of the page when GeoNames has a translation, and otherwise in their local spelling. Daily prayer times come from the AlAdhan service, widely used by Islamic apps, and are matched by an astronomical calculation running in your browser with the same parameters.

How we choose the method

For each country we use the method closest to its official or most common calendar: Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian authority in Egypt, Diyanet in Turkey, ISNA in North America, the UOIF in France, JAKIM in Malaysia, Kemenag in Indonesia, the Muslim World League in most other countries, and so on. The page calculation methods explains the differences, and every visitor can switch method in one click.

Accuracy and corrections

We do our best to keep the information accurate, but errors are possible in any large database, in the name or the position of a city. If you notice a mistake, or a difference of more than two minutes with your local adhan, please write to us through the contact page. Every correction helps all the Muslims of the same city.

Our commitment

We are committed to keeping the prayer times free and accessible to everyone, to collecting as little data as possible, and to staying neutral between the schools of jurisprudence by presenting the recognised opinions and letting readers refer to the scholars of their country.