Built for Singapore mosques, by people who understand what they actually need.
Awqōt started with a simple frustration: mosque displays that get the basics wrong. Hijri dates that roll over at midnight instead of Maghrib. Prayer times pulled from apps never designed for a specific congregation. A display that goes dark every time someone unplugs it to switch inputs for a laptop or projector, and doesn't come back until someone remembers to plug it back in.
We built Awqōt to fix that: a display system that treats prayer times, Hijri dates and announcements as the core product, not an afterthought bolted onto something else.
That began with the screen in the hall. It has grown into a hub: a browser-based prayer-time and information hub for mosques to reach their jemaah, whether in the prayer hall, at home or in their pocket. The display still sits at its centre. Alongside it, a mosque finder will help jemaah see how far each nearby mosque is, and whether they can make the next prayer in time.
That includes the khutbah and the kuliah. They run through the same screen as everything else, and visiting asatizah present with their own slides, so nobody unplugs a working display to make room for a laptop.
Every prayer time comes from MUIS.
Not a generic international API adjusted after the fact, but a deliberate choice. Mosques here shouldn't have to double-check whether a display is showing the right time for the right place.
The same goes for the mosque finder: its prayer times come from MUIS too.
The mosque display system is run as a waqf, free for Singapore mosques.
It was designed from day one with minimal ongoing costs in mind, and it is offered as infaq, not sold.
Accurate. And worth looking at.
In Surah An-Nisa (4:103), prayer is described as salatan mawqutan (“Indeed, performing prayers is a duty on the believers at the appointed times”). Awqōt (أوقات) is the plural of waqt. We named the platform after that duty.
Long before displays or databases, mosques had a person for this exact job: the muwaqqit, an officer trained in the astronomy and mathematics of the day, responsible for getting prayer times right and telling the muezzin when to call. Getting the time correct wasn't a side duty. It was the discipline itself.
Some of the people who held that role are still remembered for it. Ibn al-Shatir, the 14th-century muwaqqit of Damascus's Umayyad Mosque, built a sundial precise enough that his astronomical work echoed in scholarship centuries later. Al-Jazari, an engineer a century before him, built water clocks that tracked the sun, moon, and stars through mechanical motion alone. And in 16th-century Istanbul, Taqi al-Din built a mechanical clock that showed time down to the seconds.
We didn't set out to recreate that lineage. But building a display that insists on getting prayer times exactly right, sourced from the right authority and rolling over at the right moment, turned out to be the same job, just running on different tools.
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