The El-Badr Mosque () 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), 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 As a synagogue The synagogue was established by pieds-noirs from French Algeria in 1962. 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.
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. 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 to accommodate some of the, , approximately 220,000 Muslims living in Marseille.
Conversion of the building to a mosque was completed in the .
See also
History of the Jews in France Islam in France List of mosques in France List of synagogues in France
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