Photos of your masjid

Click Settings at the bottom of the left-hand menu to expand it, then Photos. The page is a grid of what you already have, with a dashed square at the end for adding another, and a counter in the top right reading 0 of 12 to begin with.

Twelve is the limit, and it is a deliberate one. A profile can only show so many pictures well, and every extra photo is more for somebody to download on a phone that may be on a weak signal in the car park.

Click the dashed square - it reads Add your first photo while the gallery is empty, and Add a photo afterwards - and pick a file. It takes JPG or PNG, one at a time, and it says Uploading… while the picture goes up. When it lands it appears at the end of the grid.

Landscape pictures read best, because the app draws each one in a wide card. A portrait photo is not rejected, it is simply cropped to fit, so a tall shot of the minaret may lose its top.

Worth having in the set:

• The front of the building - the one a first-time visitor matches against what they can see from the road. Put this one in first; step 6 explains why it does extra work.
• The entrance people actually use - particularly if it is round the side, or if the sisters' entrance is a different door.
• The prayer hall - it tells somebody more about your masjid than a paragraph would.
• Parking, wudhu area, the hall you hire out - whatever you get asked about on the phone.

Every thumbnail carries a small × in its top corner. Click it and Sidrah asks Remove this photo?, showing you the picture so you cannot take out the wrong one by accident. Keep it backs out; Yes, remove takes it off your profile in the app straight away. Nothing is lost for good - you can upload the same picture again later.

If your role does not allow it, an upload attempt is refused in words rather than an error code: your role can't change this masjid's photos - ask an admin on the account. Additions and removals are both written to the audit log, so Settings ▸ Audit log will tell the committee who changed the gallery and when. There is no photo filter chip yet, so leave the log on All and look for the rows marked MASJID.

Underneath the gallery on the same page sits Logo. It is one image, and it does one job: it takes the Sidrah tree's place in the top-left corner of every display screen your masjid runs. Your mark, in your hall, on your wall.

Click Add your logo and pick a file. It takes PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 10MB. Once there is a logo the same square reads Replace logo, and a Remove logo button appears under the preview.

Two things are worth knowing before you pick the file:

• Any shape is fine, because we cut it square. Whatever you choose, the middle square of it is taken and that is what goes up. You are not asked to re-cut anything. The catch is what a middle square costs a wide logo: a mark with the masjid's name written beside it will lose the words. If the name matters, upload a version with just the mark.
• Transparency survives. The logo is stored as a PNG whatever you gave us, so a mark with a see-through background stays see-through and sits on your theme's colour rather than on a white tile. That is why the preview in the admin sits on a chequerboard - it is showing you where the picture ends and the background begins.

SVG files are not accepted, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. An SVG can carry script inside it, and this image is served from our network to every wall and every phone that opens your profile. If your designer has only sent you an SVG, ask them for a PNG at 512 pixels or larger, or export one yourself.

Your screens pick the logo up on their next check-in, within a minute or so - there is nothing to publish and no screen to visit. It sits in the header band that runs across the top of every display, which Design your screen layout describes in full. The Sidrah tree stays as the fallback and always will: a screen shows your logo only once the picture has actually arrived, so a slow connection or a bad moment on the network leaves the tree in the corner rather than an empty box. Remove the logo and every screen goes back to the tree on its next check.

You can send photos before you have an account at all. The register form has a Photos of your masjid (optional) block sitting with the name and address, and it takes up to five pictures - JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 12MB each. Each one uploads as soon as you pick it and shows as a small thumbnail with an × to drop it again.

Five rather than twelve, because it is enough to show us a masjid worth approving, and the committee adds the rest from the admin once they are in. When your registration is approved, those photos become your opening gallery in the order you added them, whether you registered a brand new listing or claimed one we had already added.

It is optional and it will never hold your registration up. A file that is the wrong type or over 12MB is left out with a line saying which one and why, and the rest of the form carries on as normal. The only thing to watch is pressing Register my masjid while a picture is still going up - the form waits and says Your photos are still uploading - give it a moment and press again rather than quietly dropping it.

Open the Sidrah app and go to your masjid's profile. Two places show your pictures, and they are worth knowing apart:

• The first photo becomes your masjid's picture. It appears as a small round thumbnail beside the masjid's name at the top of the profile, in the same spot that shows the initial letter of your name when there are no photos at all. This is why the front of the building is the right one to add first.
• The whole set lives on the About screen. Tap the i button at the top right of the profile, or the masjid's name and address row, and About opens with your photos as a strip you swipe sideways. Tapping one opens it full screen with a counter reading, for example, 3 / 7. Underneath sit your facilities, address and contact details.

Photos do not appear on the Discover list or on the map - those show your name, a verified tick and the countdown to the next salaah, and are deliberately quick to load. If a change does not show up at once, close the masjid's profile and open it again.