Mosquée Missiri

As early as 1928, the military imagined building a mosque for the colonial troops so that the soldiers of the colonial empire would not feel too isolated outside their country of origin. The initiative for the project would come from Captain Abdel Kader Mademba, supported by Colonel Lame, then commander of arms. The goal was to build a monument comparable to the Hong Hien Tu pagoda, built by the Indochinese riflemen.

Completed in 1930, it is located not far from the Caïs camp. At the time, it was decorated with African huts and termite mounds reconstructed with the aim of "Giving the black rifleman the illusion, as faithful as possible, of the materialization of a setting similar to the one he left; that he finds there, in the evening, during endless palaver, the echoes of the tom-tom reverberating against the walls of a familiar building, evoking visions likely to soften the feeling of isolation that sometimes affects him, placing him, in a way, in a native atmosphere." (Captain Abdel Kader Mademba).

It is the property of the Ministry of Defense. It is the Fréjus Marine Troops Museum that is responsible for its custody.

The Missiri Mosque cannot be visited, it is visible from the outside!