# Editorial Policy & Verification Methods | UK Prayer Times

> Our editorial standards, verification process, calculation methodology, desk assessments and corrections protocol for UK Prayer Times.

*Source: https://prayer-times.co.uk/editorial-policy · Independent, free 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.

Last updated 11 August 2026

## 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](/corrections).

## 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.