Café Maure
This peaceful mosque, founded in 1920, and adjacent to the Institut du Monde Arabe, is open to both Muslims and non-Muslims, who come largely to enjoy the bookshop, hammam and tearoom. During the summer, you can sip your thé à la menthe in a lovely tree-shaded courtyard and read or chat to the sound of birdsong; in winter, it’s all about lounging on cushioned benches among horseshoe arches, pot-bellied lamps and copper tray tables. Friendly waiters pour the sugary fresh-mint tea from a great height into traditional tea glasses, and keep the calorific, sticky pastries coming. It’s an escapist experience, owing to the mosque’s Moorish architecture; Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian craftsmen were employed in creating the interior, with its polychrome faience tiles, porphyry stone fountains and cedarwood doors.
- Address
- 39 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 5me,
Jardin des Plantes - Telephone
- +33 1 43 31 38 20
- Website
- la-mosquee.com
- Opening Times
- daily, 10.00am-11.30pm.
- Price
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Cafe Maure
