About Us

1. Our Mission, Vision & Geographic Purpose

Riyadh is the vibrant, rapidly expanding capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, home to over 7.5 million residents, tens of thousands of international visitors, business travelers, and a rich tapestry of vibrant neighborhoods stretching over 1,900 square kilometers. For millions of Muslims living in and visiting Riyadh, knowing the exact moment of the five daily prayers—Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha—is an essential cornerstone of daily life and spiritual devotion.

Prayertimesriyadh.com was founded with a singular, focused objective: to build the most reliable, clean, clutter-free, and lightning-fast digital reference for prayer timings and Islamic calendar calculations tailored specifically to the geographical coordinates and official calculation standards of Riyadh.

Unlike generic global prayer applications that often apply generalized approximations or foreign calculation parameters, every algorithm, astronomical angle, and schedule on our platform is configured specifically for the Kingdom’s official standard: the Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah methodology.

2. Who We Are: Editorial Team & Technical Expertise (E-E-A-T)

Our platform is maintained by a specialized, multidisciplinary team combining celestial mechanics expertise, religious content research, and modern web engineering:

3. Our Core Values & Guiding Principles

Everything we develop and publish is governed by four core commitments to our visitors:

• Uncompromising Scientific & Religious Accuracy: We do not guess, extrapolate, or invent timings. All schedules are derived mathematically from verified astronomical coordinates or documented religious declarations.
• Complete Bilingual Parity: Every feature, article, table, calculation explainer, and legal disclosure is developed in full Arabic (the canonical native language) and full English, ensuring expatriates and international guests receive equal depth of information.
• Respect for Worship & Clean User Experience: We strictly avoid intrusive pop-up advertisements, loud multimedia auto-play, or screen-blocking interstitials that disrupt sacred reflection or mosque navigation.
• Community Accountability & Responsive Feedback: We actively listen to the observations of Riyadh residents, imams, and muezzins, investigating any reported timing variance within 12 to 24 hours.

4. Astronomical Calculation Methodology

Prayer times on Prayertimesriyadh.com are computed based on celestial mechanics and the specific geographical parameters of the Riyadh capital region:

Riyadh Geographic Coordinates Applied: Latitude 24.7136° N, Longitude 46.6753° E, Elevation ~612 meters above sea level. Time zone: Arabia Standard Time (AST / UTC+3, with zero Daylight Saving Time adjustments).

To learn more about the scientific formulas and celestial mechanics behind our timetables, visit our detailed guide: How Prayer Times Are Calculated in Riyadh.

5. Primary Religious & Scientific Data Sources

We believe in absolute transparency regarding our reference materials. Our content and calculations are anchored in the following recognized institutions and scholarly repositories:

• Umm Al-Qura Calendar (تقويم أم القرى): Established by royal decree and computed by the Institute of Astronomical and Geophysical Research at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh.
• Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance: Official supervisory body for mosques, imams, muezzins, and iqamah intervals across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (moia.gov.sa).
• The Aladhan Astronomical API: Internationally acclaimed, open-standards astronomical API engine utilized as our server-to-server computational backend with localized caching and failover redundancy.
• Sunnah.com Hadith Repository: Verified digital corpus of the canonical Hadith books (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Sunan an-Nasa’i, and Sunan Ibn Majah) with authenticated reference numbers and chains.
• Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA): Official state regulator for Zakat calculation guidelines, nisab benchmarks, and commercial wealth assessments in Saudi Arabia (zatca.gov.sa).

6. Editorial Independence & Commercial Separation

To fund the computational infrastructure, high-speed hosting, data feeds, and editorial maintenance of this free community platform, Prayertimesriyadh.com displays online advertising through Google AdSense and accredited digital ad exchanges:

• Zero Editorial Influence: Advertisers and sponsors have zero influence, input, or control over our prayer timetables, Islamic explanations, calendar calculations, or editorial decisions.
• Strict Ad Separation: All commercial advertising units are clearly demarcated and visually separated from prayer timetables, Quranic verses, and worship resources.
• Ethical Advertising Standards: We actively filter advertising categories to maintain family-friendly, culturally respectful environments appropriate for an Islamic reference website.

7. Technological Architecture & User Experience

We engineered Prayertimesriyadh.com from the ground up to respect our users’ time, bandwidth, and device battery:

• Sub-Second Loading Performance: Lightweight semantic HTML5, streamlined CSS stylesheets, and optimized SVG icons ensure pages load within fractions of a second even on mobile cellular networks.
• Zero Bloat: We do not burden your browser with heavy client-side frameworks, unnecessary marketing trackers, or invasive analytics scripts.
• Low-Light Dark Mode: Our high-contrast Dark Mode toggle allows worshippers to check prayer times inside dimly lit mosques or during night prayers without eye strain or disturbing fellow worshippers.
• Responsive Across All Screens: Fully adaptive layouts tested across mobile phones, tablets, desktop workstations, and smart mosque wall displays.

8. Community Collaboration & Error Reporting

We consider our visitors to be essential partners in preserving data integrity. If you are an imam, muezzin, astronomical enthusiast, or Riyadh resident who notices any timing nuance, translation typo, or feature suggestion, we invite your feedback:

• Our editorial and technical team investigates every verified inquiry promptly.
• We maintain open communication channels and provide direct email routing to specific departments.

9. Important Non-Clerical Boundary (No Theological Decrees)

Prayertimesriyadh.com is an independent digital publisher and educational utility. We are NOT an Islamic judicial body, clerical fatwa committee, or religious authority.

None of the articles, explanations, or calculator outputs on this website constitute a formal Islamic legal verdict (Fatwa). For binding religious rulings on personal jurisprudence, fasting exemptions, or family matters, please consult the official state authorities in Saudi Arabia:

• The Council of Senior Scholars (هيئة كبار العلماء): The Kingdom’s supreme religious council.
• The General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta: Official portal at ifta.gov.sa (Toll-Free Hotline: 800-245-1999).