Thunder Bay Masjid
Prayer times
The month
| Day | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|
The large time is the iqama, when the congregation prays. The small one underneath is the Adhan. How the Adhan times are calculated.
How these times are calculated
The Adhan times are IslamicFinder’s times for Thunder Bay, which use the method of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). On two of them, Fajr and Maghrib, the masjid also checks the position of the sun at the masjid itself and keeps to the cautious side for those who are fasting.
Fajr
When the sun is 15° below the horizon before sunrise. If IslamicFinder’s minute would fall after that moment here, the masjid shows the earlier minute, at most 2 minutes before IslamicFinder.
Sunrise
When the upper edge of the sun reaches the horizon. Fajr has to be prayed before it.
Dhuhr
1 minute after the sun passes its highest point (zawal).
Asr
When an object’s shadow is its noon shadow plus its own height (Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanbali), or plus twice its height (Hanafi). Both are shown; the iqama is the same.
Maghrib
1 minute after sunset. If IslamicFinder’s minute would fall sooner than that here, the masjid shows the later minute, at most 2 minutes after IslamicFinder.
Isha
When the sun is 15° below the horizon after sunset. In May, June and July, when the nights are short, the masjid uses 13.5°, which is about a quarter of an hour earlier.
- Rounding. A prayer’s time is always taken up to the next whole minute, so it is never shown before it begins. Sunrise is taken down, and so is the masjid’s own check on Fajr, because those two mark the end of a time.
- Short summer nights. From the middle of May to late July the sky here does not get fully dark until very late. Fajr and Isha are then set as a fixed share of the night, as IslamicFinder does.
- If your app shows a different minute. Most apps use the same angles but work out the sun’s position a little differently, or round the other way. A difference of a minute or two is normal. If it is more, check that the app is set to ISNA (15° and 15°) and to Thunder Bay.
- The iqama is set by the masjid each week and is not part of this calculation.