El-Badr Mosque
Mosque, former synagogue, in Marseille, France
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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.
| El-Badr Mosque | |
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Mosquée El-Badr | |
.png)  Location of the mosque in Marseille | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Islam |
| Status | Active (as a mosque) |
| Location | |
| Location | 14 rue Saint Dominique, Marseille |
| Country | France |
 Interactive map of El-Badr Mosque | |
| Coordinates | 43°18′01″N 5°22′48″E |
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Prior to acquiring the former synagogue at 14 rue Saint Dominique, the mosque was located at 206 Chemin Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe.
History
As a synagogue
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
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[update], approximately 220,000 Muslims living in Marseille.[8]
Conversion of the building to a mosque was completed in the c. 2020s.
