From colonial symbol to sanctuary: Paris's Grand Mosque turns 100
- Tucked away in the heart of the Latin Quarter neighbourhood, the Grand Mosque of Paris is one of the city’s essential landmarks.
- Inaugurated on July 15, 1926 by former French president Gaston Doumergue and Moulay Youssef, Morocco’s sultan at the time, the mosque was built as a tribute to the more than 100,000 Muslim soldiers who fought and died for France during World War I.
- The Mosque's Hispano-Moorish architecture boasts a 33-metre-high minaret, courtyards and interior gardens inspired by Arab-Andalusian palaces and porticoes embellished with tiles hand-carved by Moroccan craftsmen in 1922.
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- Tucked away in the heart of the Latin Quarter neighbourhood, the Grand Mosque of Paris is one of the city’s essential landmarks.
- Inaugurated on July 15, 1926 by former French president Gaston Doumergue and Moulay Youssef, Morocco’s sultan at the time, the mosque was built as a tribute to the more than 100,000 Muslim soldiers who fought and died for France during World War I.
- The Mosque's Hispano-Moorish architecture boasts a 33-metre-high minaret, courtyards and interior gardens inspired by Arab-Andalusian palaces and porticoes embellished with tiles hand-carved by Moroccan craftsmen in 1922.
Sources: France 24