3D print the Grand Mosque of Paris
A free, printable model of the Grand Mosque of Paris and the streets and buildings around it in the 5th arrondissement, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 10 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
10 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A low, spreading complex
A mosque complex of this kind spreads across its plot rather than rising, so the outline carries the print. Print it larger, and keep layers at 0.12 to 0.16 mm so wall and roof edges stay clean.
- One piece with the ground
The Grand Mosque of Paris is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Grand Mosque of Paris takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Grand Mosque of Paris
The Grand Mosque of Paris sits in the city's 5th arrondissement, where it counts among the largest mosques in France. It holds prayer rooms, a garden open to the sky, a small library and a gift shop, plus a cafe and a restaurant. Finished in 1926, it is metropolitan France's oldest mosque.
Plans for a mosque in the city were aired for decades: the Committee of French Africa proposed one in 1895 without success, and the journalist Paul Bourdarie later campaigned for the idea. The project gathered force again once the Battle of Verdun was over, when the Société des Habous, founded in 1917 to arrange the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca for North African residents, took on the building work. Maurice Tranchant de Lunel, an architect, drew up its first concept.
One earlier structure had already been labeled a mosque on Parisian soil. A prefectorial decree of November 29, 1856 let the Ottoman Embassy lay out a burial enclosure for Muslims in Père Lachaise cemetery, and there the Ottomans put up a building labeled a mosque, which sheltered funerary services and prayers for the dead.
About this model
The Grand Mosque of Paris is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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