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Mr Chems-Eddine Hafiz (left), rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, arriving for Notre Dame Cathedral's opening ceremony in Paris, on Dec 8, 2024.
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PARIS – The leader of one of France’s most significant places of Islamic worship has told his imams to include a prayer for the country at the end of their regular Friday sermons.
In a letter sent on Jan 9, Mr Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, told the 150 imams who are affiliated with his mosque but serve throughout France “to introduce invocations in Arabic and French at the end of the sermon each Friday”.
