This issue remained unresolved for quite a long time, largely due to our non-profit budget constraints. But recently, a spark of innovation led us to a solution: leveraging AI to overcome this challenge.

In our backend API, we designed a prompt containing the information we believed would be valuable. We then made an API call to the gpt-3.5-turbo model, which in turn generated a description based on the provided details. Here’s an example:

<<OPENAI
Generate a human-friendly brief description for the mosque based on the provided data within Beginning & end of Data Section. Adhere to the following guidelines:

<A number of rules; redacted for brevity>


Beginning of Data Section
<Provided data about mosques; redacted for brevity>
End of Data Section

OPENAI

We have noticed that the generated content occasionally deviates from our instructions. However, with the availability of gpt-4, we anticipate a significant improvement that will bring us closer to our goal of providing accurate and engaging descriptions for our users.

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There is very exciting news from our team. After months of preparations, actually traveling to London, data mining & curation, updating our core system, etc. we’ve successfully added the United Kingdom to our supported countries list.

What’s available:

• Mosques
• Iqamah Timing
• Mosque Management System
• Prayer Times (was already available globally)
• Auto-select calculation and juristic methods in the U.K.
• Ability to add Islamic Events (this is self-serve basis only, our data mining team does not capacity to support any country other than USA as of now but any mosque admin can add their own events. Note: We’re working on making the events listing even better).

Examples:

• Mosques near London
• Mosques near Manchester

What’s next:
Our team is currently working on supporting Australia. We’ll announce it very soon, in-sha-Allah!

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