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On July 15, 1926, the Grand Mosque of Paris was inaugurated, in the presence of the President of the Republic Gaston Doumergue, the Sultan of Morocco Youssef Ben Hassan and religious figures, such as the Algerian Sheikh Ahmad Al Alawi, whose disciples then lived in France. If the first attempts to build a French mosque date back to the 18th century – in a diplomatic context and within the Palace of Versailles itself, at the request of the Moroccan and Ottoman sultans – the Parisian mosque is the first French Muslim public place of prayer.
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