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El-Badr Mosque

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El-Badr Mosque
Mosquée El-Badr
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Ecclesiastical or organisational status
StatusActive (as a mosque)
Location
Location14 rue Saint Dominique, Marseille
CountryFrance
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Architecture
Type
  • Mosque (current)
  • Synagogue (former)
Completed
  • c. 2020s (as a mosque)
  • 1962 (as a synagogue)

The El-Badr Mosque (French: Mosquée El-Badr) is a mosque located in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille, France. Acquired by the Al Badr Muslim Association in 2016, the building was a former Jewish synagogue called the Or Thora Synagogue, also referred to as the Or Torah Synagogue ('Light of the Torah' synagogue),[1] that was established by pieds-noirs in 1962.

Prior to acquiring the former synagogue at 14 rue Saint Dominique, the mosque was located at 206 Chemin Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe.

History

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As a synagogue

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The synagogue was established by pieds-noirs from French Algeria in 1962.[2][3] It is located on the Rue Saint Dominique, off the Boulevard d'Athènes, between the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles and the Canebière, in the 1st arrondissement of Marseille.[4]

As a result of antisemitism in Marseille, the synagogue ceased operating.

As a mosque

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Concurrently, the nearby mosque, run by the Al Badr Muslim Association, was unable to handle the weekly overcrowding.[1] The synagogue building was sold in 2016 for €400,000 to the Al Badr Muslim Association, a Muslim organization. The Association planned to turn it into a mosque[2][5][6][7] to accommodate some of the, as of 2016, approximately 220,000 Muslims living in Marseille.[8]

Conversion of the building to a mosque was completed in the c. 2020s.

See also

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References

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