Wikipedia's first sentence called it “one of the largest mosques in europe”. Today it says “mosque in évry-courcouronnes”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Grand Mosque of Évry , in Évry , France , is one of the largest mosques in Europe, exceeded in size only by the Mosque of Rome and by the Ahmadi Mosque in London .1 A cultural center is associated with the building. A process was initiated in the early 1980s to collect funds to build the mosque in Évry. The modest results of this effort led to a search for additional funding from the Gulf states. The Saudi Sheikh Akram Aadja saw that the financing was completed. The first stone was laid in 1984, and construction work began in 1985. Interior decoration was funded by the Hassan II Foundation. The mosque opened ten years later, in 1995, the same year as the Cathédrale d'Évry . It was the work of the architect Henri Baudot , who has constructed several buildings in Algeria and Tunisia .2
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The opening as it stood in 2015 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
The Grand Mosque of Évry ( ) is a mosque in Évry , Paris , France . A cultural center is associated with the building. A process was initiated in the early 1980s to collect funds to build the mosque in Évry. The modest results of this effort led to a search for additional funding from the Persian Gulf states. The Saudi Sheikh Akram Aadja saw that the financing was completed. The first stone was laid in 1984, and construction work began in 1985. Interior decoration was funded by the Hassan II Foundation. The mosque opened ten years later, in 1995, the same year as the Évry Cathedral . It was the work of the architect Henri Baudot , who has constructed several buildings in Algeria and Tunisia .
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The Grand Mosque of Évry ( ) is a mosque in Évry , Paris , France . A cultural center is associated with the building.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Mosque in Évry-Courcouronnes, Essonne, France The Grand Mosque of Évry ( ) is a mosque in Évry-Courcouronnes , Essonne , France . A cultural center is associated with the building.
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Mosque in Évry-Courcouronnes, Essonne, France The Grand Mosque of Évry ( French : Grande Mosquée d'Évry ) is a mosque in Évry-Courcouronnes , Essonne , France . A cultural center is associated with the building.
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one of the largest mosques in europe
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mosque in évry-courcouronnes
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