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The centenary of the Paris
Mosque, July 2026

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Roger-Viollet | 659310 | Laying of the cornerstone of the Paris Mosque. Marshal Lyautey, on the right, speaking to Ben Ghabrit, in 1922. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Laying of the cornerstone of the Paris Mosque. Marshal Lyautey, on the right, speaking to Ben [...]
Roger-Viollet | 644419 | Kaddour ben Ghabrit, president of the Société des Halbous and Morocco’s minister plenipotentiary, during Ait el Kebir at the Grand Mosque of Paris. Paris (5th arrondissement), February 11, 1938. Photograph from the newspaper Excelsior. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Kaddour ben Ghabrit, president of the Société des Halbous and Morocco’s minister plenipotentiary, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 642478 | Algerian dignitaries attending the inauguration of the Paris Mosque. Review at the Arc de Triomphe. Paris (8th arrondissement), July 16, 1926. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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Algerian dignitaries attending the inauguration of the Paris Mosque. Review at the Arc de Triomphe. [...]
Roger-Viollet | 615197 | Construction of the Paris Mosque. Visit of an Indian delegation. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1924. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Paris Mosque. Visit of an Indian delegation. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1924.
 
Roger-Viollet | 587672 | Moroccan Prime Minister Ben Ghabrit visiting the construction site of the Paris Mosque. 1924. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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Moroccan Prime Minister Ben Ghabrit visiting the construction site of the Paris Mosque. 1924.
Roger-Viollet | 583172 | Construction of the Paris Mosque. Orientation chart. Ben Ghabrit and other notable figures. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Paris Mosque. Orientation chart. Ben Ghabrit and other notable figures.
 
Roger-Viollet | 579910 | Construction of the Paris Mosque. Visit of an Indian delegation. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1924. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Paris Mosque. Visit of an Indian delegation. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1924.
Roger-Viollet | 578420 | Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit at the Paris Mosque (5th arrondissement). June 26, 1954. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit at the Paris Mosque (5th arrondissement). June 26, 1954.
Roger-Viollet | 520145 | Albert Lebrun (1871-1950), President of the French Republic, Mohammed V of Morocco (1909-1961), Sultan of Morocco, and Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit (1868-1954), founder of the Muslim Institute of the Great Mosque of Paris, attending a garden party at the Elysee Palace. Paris (8th arrondissement), on June 2nd, 1939. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Albert Lebrun (1871-1950), President of the French Republic, Mohammed V of Morocco (1909-1961), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 519630 | Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of Paris. June 29, 1954. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 492184 | Celebrating the Eid al-Adha at the Great Mosque of Paris (religious ceremony where a sheep is sacrificed), with Mahmoud Fakhry Pasha (1884-1952), Ambassador of Egypt in France, Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit, wearing the burnous (1868-1954), Algerian senior official and founder of the Muslim Institute of the Great Mosque of Paris, and Galandou Diouf (1875-1941), Senegalese deputy. Paris (5th arrondissement), 31 January 1939. Photograph from the French newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Celebrating the Eid al-Adha at the Great Mosque of Paris (religious ceremony where a sheep is [...]
Roger-Viollet | 489477 | Speech by Sheikh el Arab Ben Gana at the Grand Mosque of Paris (5th arrondissement), 1939. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
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Speech by Sheikh el Arab Ben Gana at the Grand Mosque of Paris (5th arrondissement), 1939.
Roger-Viollet | 438526 | Burial in the Great Mosque of Paris of a Muslim victim of the demonstration on February 6, 1934. On the left : Ben Ghabrit. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Burial in the Great Mosque of Paris of a Muslim victim of the demonstration on February 6, 1934. On [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 437119 | Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of Paris. June 29, 1954. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 393359 | Speech by Si Bou Aziz Ben Gana, Sheikh el Arab (Emir of the Arabs), invited to France by the Association of Friends of Algeria, at the Grand Mosque of Paris. Paris (5th arrondissement), March 8, 1939. Photograph from the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Speech by Si Bou Aziz Ben Gana, Sheikh el Arab (Emir of the Arabs), invited to France by the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 386970 | Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of Paris. June 29, 1954. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 365530 | Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of Paris. Speech by Christian Fouchet, minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, June 29, 1954. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Funeral of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, former plenipotentiary minister of Morocco, at the mosque of [...]
Roger-Viollet | 357617 | Visit by Mohammed V of Morocco (1909–1961), Sultan of Morocco, to the Grand Mosque of Paris with his son, Crown Prince Hassan (1929–1999), and his entourage. Behind the sultan, Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit (1868–1954) can be seen wearing a burnous; he was a high-ranking official and founder of the Muslim Institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Paris (5th arrondissement), June 23, 1939. Photograph from the newspaper Excelsior. | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Visit by Mohammed V of Morocco (1909–1961), Sultan of Morocco, to the Grand Mosque of Paris with [...]
Roger-Viollet | 339393 | Eid al-Adha at the Grand Mosque. Sacrifice of rams. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1926. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Eid al-Adha at the Grand Mosque. Sacrifice of rams. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1926.
 
Roger-Viollet | 320016 | Laying of the cornerstone for the Paris Mosque. In the center, from left to right: Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, Colrat, and Cair, representatives of the French government, and the Marabout. Paris (5th arrondissement), 1922. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Laying of the cornerstone for the Paris Mosque. In the center, from left to right: Si Kaddour Ben [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 317343 | Reception at the Paris Mosque with Algerian Prime Minister Ben Ghabrit. 1936. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Reception at the Paris Mosque with Algerian Prime Minister Ben Ghabrit. 1936.
Roger-Viollet | 313688 | Inauguration of the Paris Mosque. The Sultan of Morocco, Youssef ben Hassan (1882–1927), and President Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937). Paris (5th arrondissement), July 15, 1926. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Inauguration of the Paris Mosque. The Sultan of Morocco, Youssef ben Hassan (1882–1927), and [...]
Roger-Viollet | 292683 | Albert Lebrun (1871-1950), President of the French Republic, Mohammed V of Morocco (1909-1961), Sultan of Morocco, and Si Kaddour ben Ghabrit (1868-1954), founder of the Muslim Institute of the Great Mosque of Paris, attending a garden party at the Elysee Palace. Paris (8th arrondissement), on June 2nd, 1939. Photograph from the collections of the newspaper Excelsior . | © Excelsior - L'Equipe / Roger-Viollet
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Albert Lebrun (1871-1950), President of the French Republic, Mohammed V of Morocco (1909-1961), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 228226 | Construction of the Paris Mosque (5th arrondissement), 1922-1926. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Construction of the Paris Mosque (5th arrondissement), 1922-1926.
 
Roger-Viollet | 225760 | King Mohammed V of Morocco and his son, Crown Prince Hassan, at the Paris Mosque. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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King Mohammed V of Morocco and his son, Crown Prince Hassan, at the Paris Mosque.
Roger-Viollet | 214143 | An Indian delegation visiting the Paris Mosque under construction with Moroccan Prime Minister Ben Ghabrit (left). 1924. | © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet
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An Indian delegation visiting the Paris Mosque under construction with Moroccan Prime Minister Ben [...]
 
Roger-Viollet | 212660 | Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937), President of the French Republic, and the Sultan of Morocco, Youssef ben Hassan (1882–1927), seated in the center, at the inauguration of the Paris Mosque (5th arrondissement), July 15, 1926. | © Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet
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Gaston Doumergue (1863–1937), President of the French Republic, and the Sultan of Morocco, Youssef [...]
Roger-Viollet | 189413 | Panorama of the Hôpital de la Pitié before its demolition in 1912 (present Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and the Paris Mosque). Paris, Rue Lacépède, circa 1900. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
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Panorama of the Hôpital de la Pitié before its demolition in 1912 (present Rue [...]