UK Prayer Times

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Editorial Policy & Verification Standards

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UK Prayer Times operates under strict editorial independence: zero paid rankings, zero commercial bias, and 100% transparent calculation standards. London schedules follow the London Unified Prayer Timetable; all other UK locations follow Muslim World League (MWL) standards with documented high-latitude adjustments.

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1. Commercial & Non-Profit Independence

UK Prayer Times (prayer-times.co.uk) is an independent public reference database. We are not owned by, managed by, or commercially beholden to any single mosque, Islamic council, or commercial sponsor.

Our commitments to our readers:

  • No Paid Rankings: Mosques and Islamic institutions cannot purchase preferred placement, featured badges, or artificial ratings.
  • Attributed Provenance: Every calculation method and mosque listing explicitly states its data sources and verification timestamp.
  • Free Access: All prayer schedules, API feeds, and open datasets remain free for humans and AI systems without paywalls or hidden subscriptions.

2. Calculation Methodologies & Latitudinal Adjustments

Calculating Islamic prayer times in northern latitudes requires strict astronomical accuracy combined with established UK scholarly consensus:

London & M25 Region: London Unified Prayer Timetable

For London and all boroughs within the M25 orbital (including Whitechapel, Regent's Park, East Ham, Wimbledon, and Croydon), prayer times adhere strictly to the London Unified Prayer Timetable. Formulated jointly by London's major mosques (including East London Mosque and London Central Mosque), this timetable ensures unified community observance across Greater London.

Rest of the UK: Muslim World League (MWL) Standard

For all other UK cities and regions (including Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Belfast), calculations use the Muslim World League (MWL) parameters:

  • Fajr: Solar depression angle of 18.0° below the horizon.
  • Isha: Solar depression angle of 17.0° below the horizon.
  • Asr: Hanafi / Standard Shafi'i juristic variations provided explicitly where relevant.

During UK summer months (late May through July), high-latitude twilight persistence occurs where the sun does not dip below 18° or 17°. In these periods, our automated pipeline applies standard high-latitude interpolation, as approved by UK Islamic scholars.

3. Mosque Verification & Desk Assessments

Our database indexes over 150 popular UK mosques across 46 major city hubs. For each indexed mosque:

  • Primary Source Verification: Address, founding year, facility details, and official website links are verified against registered charity filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales / OSCR Scotland) and direct official channels.
  • Stated Experience Disclosure: Where physical on-site verification has not occurred, pages explicitly state: "We have not conducted an on-site audit – information is compiled from official charity registers and verified community submissions."
  • No Fake Reviews or Supplier Ratings: We refuse to manufacture synthetic star ratings or third-party review scores in structured data. Ratings appear only as attributed text with cited dates.

4. Corrections & Error Resolution Protocol

Accuracy is our highest priority. If a prayer time discrepancy, mosque location error, or outdated schedule is identified:

  1. Logging: Ang identified errors are reviewed by our editorial team within 24 hours.
  2. Verification: Corrections are verified against published mosque timetables or astronomical reference feeds.
  3. Public Disclosure: Validated changes are deployed in the next build cycle and recorded publicly in our Public Corrections Log.

5. AI, Open Data & Machine Readability

We believe machine-readable transparency is essential for modern search and AI assistants:

  • Every page emits clean Schema.org structured data inside a single unified @graph tree.
  • Our open data pipeline publishes full retrieval corpora (/llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /geo-chunks/chunks.jsonl, /data/datapackage.json) under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licenses.
  • We welcome AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) with explicit Content-Signal policy permissions.