Detroit
The United States. Times are in the city’s own zone, America/Detroit, worked out in your browser for the day below as ActivePray works them out on the phone, from where the sun is: nothing about you leaves this page.
Today
The five prayers
Worked out for the day from the sun, by the convention chosen. Fajr and Isha differ between conventions by the angle the sun stands below the horizon; a Muslim keeps the convention their mosque keeps.
| Fajr الفجر | |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | |
| Dhuhr الظهر | |
| Asr العصر | |
| Maghrib المغرب | |
| Isha العشاء |
Every day of the month
| Day | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|
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The day’s hours
The boundaries of the Jewish day, by the usual figures: alot hashachar at 16.1° below the horizon, nightfall at 8.5°, three medium stars. Communities differ, and these are estimates.
| Dawn alot hashachar, when a fast begins | |
|---|---|
| First light | |
| Sunrise netz ha-chamah | |
| Solar noon | |
| Sunset shkiah | |
| Nightfall tzeit hakochavim, when Shabbat and a fast end |
The services
Masorti and Reform: Shacharit at sunrise, Mincha from mincha gedola, six and a half halachic hours after sunrise, Ma’ariv at nightfall. Karaite: morning prayer at first light, evening prayer at sunset.
| Shacharit Masorti and Reform | |
|---|---|
| Mincha from mincha gedola | |
| Ma’ariv from nightfall | |
| Tefillat Boker Karaite | |
| Tefillat Erev Karaite |
Shabbat
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The hours of prayer
The Christian hours are not fixed to the sun: Morning Prayer is said in the morning, at an hour a person or their church chooses. ActivePray keeps each branch’s hours as conventional defaults you can move, so there is nothing to work out here. How each branch prays.
Add its holy days to your calendar
Free, and kept up to date for you. Opens in Apple Calendar and Outlook; for Google Calendar, copy the link on the calendar page.
Which way to face
The great-circle bearing, as ActivePray’s compass gives it: degrees clockwise from true north. A phone’s compass may read magnetic north, a few degrees off in most places.
The Qibla 52°
From Detroit, Muslims face the Kaʿba in Mecca at 52.0° from true north, NE, along the shortest path over the globe. It is 10,823 km away.
Toward Jerusalem 49°
Jewish prayer faces Jerusalem and the Temple Mount: from Detroit, 48.6° from true north, NE. It is 9,645 km away.
Toward the east
Orthodox churches face east, and Orthodox Christians pray toward it, the direction of the rising sun. The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is 9,645 km from Detroit.
In ActivePray every prayer comes at its hour, with reminders, the direction of prayer, and the day’s readings, for the city you keep: all of it worked out on your iPhone.
ActivePray on the App StoreTimes are estimates: conventions and customs differ, and the app says so wherever it shows them. Ramadan in Detroit: 2027 · 2028 · 2029. Shabbat times for the year: 2027 · 2028. These times on your own website. Other cities, every holy day on the calendar, and where the year stands.
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