A TV display and sponsor map that funds your masjid
UnityMap puts the local businesses your community already knows on a screen in your masjid and on a map anyone can open on their phone. Businesses sponsor a place 30 days at a time, you approve every one, and most of every listing fee goes to the masjid.
- Free for the masjid to set up
- You approve every business
- No outside ad networks
What goes on the screen
Mosque digital signage that features local sponsors
The UnityMap display is a web page made for a TV. Open it full screen on a TV in your building and it runs unattended, featuring your sponsors one at a time. This is the layout MCWS runs.
A live map of your area
It glides to each sponsor and draws the drive from the masjid to their door, with the distance and drive time.
A sponsor board
Every sponsor's name stays on screen, with plaques for Platinum sponsors and gold credits for Gold.
A QR code for phones
Scanning it opens your map, or the featured business's page, on a phone.
Clock and weather
The time and the local weather, kept current all day.
Updates itself
A newly approved sponsor appears on the screen without anyone touching the TV.
The same map online
Your masjid's map has its own page on unitymap.org, so anyone can browse every sponsor from home.
Masjid sponsorships
How masjid sponsorships work
Local businesses, from halal restaurants and grocers to clinics and contractors, sponsor a place on your map and your screen, 30 days at a time. Nobody appears until someone at your masjid approves them.
- 1
A business signs up
The owner chooses your masjid, adds one photo and a line about the business, picks a sponsor level and saves a card. Nothing is charged yet.
- 2
Your masjid reviews it
Your administrator sees the business, its photo, its level and its price, then approves it or declines it with a reason.
- 3
It goes live
Once the business is approved, its saved card is charged and it appears on your map and your screen.
- 4
The masjid is funded
Sponsorships renew every 30 days until the owner cancels. Most of every listing fee goes to the masjid.
Businesses choose from three sponsor levels, Standard, Gold and Platinum, with an optional Jumu'ah add-on: during the Friday Jumu'ah window the display rotates only through Jumu'ah sponsors.
See the default pricesYour screen, your rules
Your masjid stays in charge
You approve every business
A person at your masjid reviews every business and its photo before it appears, and can decline any one with a reason the owner sees.
You set the prices
Choose what each sponsor level costs and how many sponsors it holds. UnityMap's defaults are only a starting point.
Local businesses only
No outside ad networks. Every sponsor is a business that chose to be known at your masjid.
Away from the prayer hall
Put the screen where people come and go, like an entrance or a hallway, rather than in the prayer hall.
Live today
MCWS in Canton, Michigan
The Muslim Community of Western Suburbs (MCWS) in Canton, Michigan, is the first masjid on UnityMap.
A 65-inch screen in the main shoe area, donor-funded at no cost to the masjid, features MCWS's sponsors on a live map of Canton and draws the drive from the masjid to each one.
Local businesses sponsor it 30 days at a time. MCWS sets the prices, an MCWS administrator approves every business, and MCWS receives a statement of every payment.
Common questions
What does it cost the masjid?
Nothing to set up. Local businesses pay for their listings, and most of every listing fee goes to the masjid. The masjid provides the TV.
What do we need for the display?
A TV in your building and a way to open a web page on it: the TV's own browser, or a small device plugged into it. Open your display link full screen and it runs unattended. Any masjid, Islamic center or Muslim community organization with a TV can run it.
Who pays for the screen?
Your masjid, or a donor who wants to help. At MCWS the screen was donor-funded, at no cost to the masjid.
How is this different from another fundraiser?
It asks nothing of your congregation. The money comes from local businesses that want to be known at your masjid, and sponsorships renew every 30 days until the business cancels, so it can become steady income instead of a one-time appeal.
Who decides which businesses appear?
Your masjid. A person reviews every business before it appears, and you can decline any business with a reason. UnityMap never puts outside ads on your screen.
How do businesses sign up?
At unitymap.org/advertise. They choose your masjid, add their business with one photo, pick a level and save a card. They are charged when their business is approved.
Bring UnityMap to your masjid
Tell us about your masjid, and our team will email you to talk through what your map and display would look like.