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Muslim presence in western Europe is not a recent phenomenon resulting from the postcolonial and worker migrations of the 1950s and 1960s. In most western European metropolises, Muslim life flourished and was institutionalized for the first time during the interwar period. In France, the Grande Mosquée de Paris was inaugurated in July 1926, immediately fuelling debates in London about launching a similar project in the British capital. In 1928, the first mosque opened in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Muslims across western Europe began to organize themselves, setting up institutions varying from mosques and schools to cemeteries and publications.
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Motadel, D. (2014). The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914–1939. In: Nordbruch, G., Ryad, U. (eds) Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe. The Modern Muslim World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137387042_2
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