Salah Point turns any screen with a modern web browser into a prayer time display for your mosque. You register the mosque, set your times once, and open your own link on the device behind the screen. After that first opening the screen keeps running without internet, with times stored up to the end of next year.
What has been tested, plainly: we have run the screen app in Chrome on a computer, including cutting the network and restarting the browser. It has not yet been tried on a real TV, TV box, stick or Raspberry Pi. A computer is the route we can stand behind today. The table below says what we know about each device.
What the screen shows
- The next prayer with a countdown, and the adhan and iqama time of every prayer.
- Sunrise, and up to four Friday prayer times.
- The date, and the hijri date if you want it.
- Your mosque's name, city and logo, and your own line at the bottom.
- A QR code that opens your mosque's page.
- Your own notices, as a line, on half the screen or on the whole screen.
- Quran verses and hadith between prayers, if you turn them on. They come word for word from Tanzil, QuranEnc and HadeethEnc, and the source is shown with them.
- A dark screen during prayer, if you turn it on.
- The adhan as sound, from a recording of your own, if you upload one.
- In Ramadan, the end of suhoor, iftar, a countdown to the next of them and the day's number. See the Ramadan guide.
What you need
- A TV or monitor with an HDMI input. Landscape or upright both work.
- A device to run the browser. A small computer is the tested route.
- Internet once, for the first opening. After that it is optional.
- A browser that keeps its data, so no private or incognito window. The app needs ES modules, service workers and localStorage. Parts of its code need Chromium 92 or newer, or a browser of the same age.
- A clock that is right. The screen counts by the device's clock. If it can't confirm the time after it starts, or the clock is more than two minutes off, it shows "Time not confirmed, check the clock" in large letters, and keeps the times on the screen.
Which device
| Device | How it runs today | Opens by itself after a power cut | Our test status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PC or laptop | Browser, full screen | Yes, if you set it up | Run in Chrome on a computer, also offline. Not yet tried in a prayer room. |
| Mini PC | Browser, full screen | Yes, if you set it up | Same browser as above. No mini PC tested. |
| Raspberry Pi | Chromium in kiosk mode | Yes, if you set it up | Not tested |
| Android TV box | A browser from the box's store. App coming soon. | Depends on the box | Not tested |
| Fire TV | Silk browser. App coming soon. | Not by itself | Not tested |
| Smart TV browser | The TV's own browser | Usually not | Not tested. Older TVs are too old. |
Not sure? Read how to show prayer times on a TV, which helps you choose.
Before you buy or mount anything, open tv.salahpoint.com in the device's browser. If it asks "Which mosque should this screen show?", the app has started there. If it stays empty, that browser is too old.
How it works
Your times live in one place. The mosque page, the screen and the app that is coming all read the same data, so a change in your dashboard reaches all of them.
The screen is a web app at tv.salahpoint.com/your-mosque. On its first opening it stores itself on the device, with your timetable up to the end of next year, your logo, photos, texts and notices. Daylight saving is already inside those times. All countdowns are worked out from the clock, so the screen does not need the server to know what comes next.
Set it up in five steps
- Register your mosque with its name, address, place on the map and an email. We review every mosque by hand. You can set everything up before the review.
- Under Prayer times, choose a calculation method or enter your own times, and set iqama and Friday prayer.
- Under Prayer room screen, pick a template, colour and languages. The preview shows the real screen app.
- Once your mosque is approved, copy your link from Link and setup and open it on the device, with internet.
- Double-click the screen, or press F11, for full screen. Set the device so it never sleeps.
The last three steps should take about five minutes when the TV and device are already connected. That is our estimate, as we have not yet timed it in a mosque. The review comes first and is done by a person, so we can't promise how long it takes.
Templates and colours
There are 12 templates: Arch, Band, Clear, Photo and panel, Diwan, Sun path, Pattern panel, Pattern edge, Mihrab, Arch with photo, Full photo and Half photo. Four of them show a photo: one of ours, or your own JPEG, PNG or WebP up to 10 MB.
There are 10 colours, or any colour of your own. Text colour is worked out for you, so it stays readable. On an upright screen all templates use one stacked layout. You can see it running on the home page and try the templates there.
Languages
The screen speaks 15 languages, one at a time or two at once, with the second language beside the prayer names: English, German, Arabic, French, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Malay, Indonesian, Persian, Spanish, Dutch and Russian. Arabic, Urdu and Persian run right to left.
Ten of them (Turkish, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Malay, Indonesian, Persian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian) were written without review by native speakers. Please have someone from your community read the screen first, and tell us what to fix.
Without internet
Once opened, the screen runs with no internet, also after the device restarts, as long as the link is opened again. It shows a small "Offline" label. When fewer than 30 days of stored times remain, the label says how many. The full list of what works and what waits is in running a screen offline.
Live updates
With internet, a change usually shows at once, through a live connection to the server. That connection is only a nudge. The screen also checks by itself every 15 minutes, so if the nudge is lost it is at most some minutes late. Nothing on the screen changes until the whole new timetable has arrived, and a failed download changes nothing. More than one room? Open the same link on each screen.
Adhan sound
The screen can play the adhan once at each prayer you choose, from your own recording: MP3, M4A or OGG, up to 10 MB. It is stored on the screen, so it plays with no internet too. We include no recording, so upload one you may use, such as your own muezzin's. Browsers only allow sound after a click, so the screen says when it needs one. To avoid the click, start Chrome with --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required. We have not tried this on a real TV or speaker system.
What it does not do today
- No app in the stores yet. An app for Android TV and Fire TV is being built. It is not published, so for now it is the browser. Coming soon.
- No Hanafi Asr setting. Calculated Asr uses the earlier time. A mosque that prays by the later time can enter its own times.
- No iqama per date. Iqama is one rule per prayer: minutes after the adhan, or a fixed time. See the iqama guide.
- No check from afar. You can't see from your dashboard whether a screen is on.
- No members, accounting or donation receipts. This is a display and a page for your mosque, not office software.
Cost and ads
The screen in the prayer room never shows ads. Salah Point earns from ads in the news and in the app, and only at mosques that allow them. We read each ad first, then your mosque allows or refuses it, and you can turn ads off completely under Ads and earnings. Your mosque gets a share of the ad money, and sees there what it has earned, what has been paid and what is still owed. Ads are booked per mosque, use no personal data, and are always labelled.
Questions
Do we need a computer? A computer is the tested route. Other devices may work, as the table shows. We say so only when we have tried them.
Do we have to connect it to the internet? Once, for the first opening. Keep it connected if you want changes to arrive by themselves.
Who decides the times? Your mosque. Choose a method, adjust each prayer, or type in your own times. If in doubt, ask your local scholar.
Who runs this? See about Salah Point and the facts page.
Written by the Salah Point team. Last checked against the product on 3 November 2026.