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Si Kaddour Benghabrit, Founder of the Paris Mosque

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ScholarFounder of the Paris Mosque

Si Kaddour Benghabritسي قدور بن غبريط

Approximate dateParis

An Algerian-born scholar and diplomat who founded the Grand Mosque of Paris and was its first rector.

Trained in Islamic law, he served the Moroccan sultans as a diplomat. The Grand Mosque of Paris, opened in 1926, honoured North African Muslims who died for France in the First World War. During the Nazi occupation the mosque is reported to have sheltered people in danger, including some Jews.

What grew out of it?

The Paris Mosque remains a centre of Muslim life in France.

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Who else is linked?

ParisEuropean colonial empires

Who lived at the same time?

Mehmed VMehmed VIAbdulmejid IIAbdul Hamid IIMustafa KemalMuhammad AhmadAbdulaziz ibn SaudMurad V

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