Website maintenance for mosques and Islamic centers

We built the websites for Masjid As-Sunnah in St. Paul, established in 2014, and Dar Al Qalam Center in Minneapolis, which has served its community since 2012, and for Darul Uloom New York. In each case the design was the easy part; keeping the times, the giving pages, and the announcements right through Ramadan was the real work. A care plan puts one person on it. Adhan is calculated for your coordinates with the method your imam follows; iqamah is entered from the schedule your board decides and changed the day the board changes it. Ramadan, Eid, and the daylight saving switches sit on a calendar a year ahead, the software is patched every week, and two people at the masjid hold every login in writing.

What goes stale first

• 01Iqamah is decided, not calculated, so somebody has to key itEvery prayer-time service on the market computes adhan from your coordinates. None of them knows your iqamah, because your board sets it, and the tools masjids actually use, MasjidBox, MOHID, and Masjidal, all require the mosque to enter and maintain those times itself. The method matters too: for June 21, 2026 in Minneapolis the Aladhan service returns Isha at 11:00 p.m. by ISNA, 11:23 by Muslim World League, and 10:23 by the Moonsighting Committee. We keep the method your imam chose and key the iqamah changes the day they are decided.
• 02Ramadan is a different website for a monthTraffic spikes in the twenty minutes before maghrib every night. The start date is confirmed the night before. Somebody has to publish the timetable, open the iftar sponsorship calendar, post taraweeh and the qiyam schedule, and announce the Eid salah location and parking on a Sunday night from a phone. Ramadan 1448 is projected to begin on Monday, February 8, 2027, with tarawih the night before; the pages go up in January and are corrected the night the moon is sighted.
• 03Janazah does not wait for a web developerWhen someone passes, the family needs the salah time and the burial location on every channel before the next prayer. Today that goes out on WhatsApp and reaches the website two days later, and the website is where the cousin in another state looks at two in the morning. We build the announcement as a four-field post a volunteer can publish from a phone, we keep that volunteer trained, and we post it ourselves when nobody can.
• 04One donate button, three different intentsZakat is restricted to the eight categories in Qur'an 9:60, and most rulings keep it off building and operating costs, so a general donate button that pools zakat with sadaqah and the building fund gives the treasurer a problem in January and the donor a quiet doubt in Ramadan, when the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at Indiana University found 69 percent of U.S. Muslims always give. We keep the designated funds labeled, the fee-cover option on, and the receipts matching the intent.

The year on the website

This is the calendar we keep for a mosques & islamic center site on a care plan. Your dates go in during onboarding; the work happens without anyone on your staff having to remember it.

1. JanuaryRamadan pages drafted: timetable template, iftar sponsorship calendar, taraweeh and qiyam schedule, zakat and fitrah pages; the projected start date of February 8, 2027 posted as projected, pending moon sighting.
2. February – MarchRamadan 1448 timetable live and corrected the night the moon is sighted; the nightly spike watched on the hosting; daylight saving on March 14, 2027 shifts the iqamah table; Eid al-Fitr salah location and parking posted the night Eid is confirmed, projected for March 9 or 10.
3. April – MayPost-Ramadan iqamah schedule restored; Dhul Hijjah and Eid al-Adha pages, projected for May 16, 2027; qurbani and sponsorship forms; weekend school registration for the fall opens with capacity caps.
4. June – JulySummer iqamah schedule, where Isha runs past ten in Minnesota; 1 Muharram 1449 on June 6, 2027; youth and summer Quran program pages; the year's janazah and event posts archived.
5. August – SeptemberWeekend school and hifz program start dates, tuition, and sibling discounts; staff and teacher lists; Jumuah times checked against the wall; the giving pages reviewed before year-end campaigns.
6. October – NovemberDaylight saving ends November 7, 2027 and the iqamah table moves again; winter prayer schedule; Give to the Max Day on November 19 for masjids that use it; board meeting dates for the year.
7. DecemberYear-end giving pages, zakat and sadaqah designations reconciled with the treasurer, receipt wording checked, next year's Ramadan projection placed on the calendar, and a full speed and accessibility pass.

What we handle every month

• Iqamah, Jumuah, and khutbah-language changes keyed the day the board decides them
• Ramadan timetable, taraweeh, iftar calendar, and Eid salah pages posted and corrected on sighting
• Janazah announcements posted from a phone by a trained volunteer, or by us
• Zakat, sadaqah, fitrah, and building-fund designations kept separate and receipted
• Weekend school, hifz, and summer program registration opened and closed on time
• Somali, Arabic, and Oromo pages flagged and updated when the English changes
• Google Business Profile Friday hours and entrance photo matched to the site
• Weekly software updates, daily backups, uptime watched through the Ramadan spike