The Café Maure is the tea room of the Grande Mosquée de Paris, at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire in the 5th arrondissement. It opens every day of the year from 9:00 to midnight, takes no reservations, and you do not need a mosque ticket to sit down: mint tea is listed at €2 on the operator’s own tariff. The restaurant next door serves couscous and tagines daily from 11:30, and the hammam behind it is open 10:00 to 21:00 and is reserved for women only.
Three separate businesses share one address here, and most English-language pages blur them together. This guide separates the tea room, the restaurant, the hammam and the mosque visit, with the hours, prices and entrances for each, all checked against the operator’s own site and the mosque’s own visitor page in August 2026.
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Café Maure de la Mosquée de Paris at a glance
What it is | The salon de thé (Moorish tea room) of the Grande Mosquée de Paris complex |
Adresse | 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris |
Tea room hours | Every day of the year, 9:00 to 00:00, no break, no reservation |
Restaurant hours | Every day of the year, 11:30 to 23:30, no break, reservations accepted |
Hammam hours | Every day of the year, 10:00 to 21:00, no reservation |
Hammam access | Women only. Minimum age 12; proof of age may be requested |
Téléphone | 01 43 31 38 20 (tea room, restaurant, hammam) |
Mint tea | €2.00 on the operator’s published tariff |
Hammam entry | From €30 (entry, towel and a mint tea); packages to €140 |
Mosque visit | Separate entrance at 2bis place du Puits-de-l’Ermite. €5 full, €3 reduced |
Mosque visiting hours | 9:00 to 18:00 daily except Friday and Muslim holidays |
Nearest metro | Censier-Daubenton (line 7); Gare d’Austerlitz (lines 5 and 10) |
Sièges | 450 places across indoor salons and the outdoor courtyard |
What is the Café Maure de la Mosquée de Paris?
The Café Maure is the tea room inside the Grande Mosquée de Paris complex, serving mint tea and North African pastries under blue-and-white zellige tilework, around a fig-shaded courtyard. It is one of three commercial spaces at the same address, alongside a full restaurant and a hammam, all run by the same operator and all independent of the mosque’s religious functions.
You will see the place called several things, and they all point to the same courtyard: Café Maure, salon de thé de la Mosquée, La Mosquée, and Restaurant de la Mosquée de Paris. “Maure” is the French word for Moorish, and it describes the decorative style rather than a chain or a brand.
The pastries are the North African repertoire: cornes de gazelle, baklawa, makrout, and almond-and-honey cakes, taken with a glass of sweetened mint tea. The tea room does not serve full meals; for couscous, tagines, grillades, pastilla or keftas you move next door to the restaurant.
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Is the Café Maure inside the Jardin des Plantes?
No. The complex sits at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, facing the Jardin des Plantes across the street. The operator’s own restaurant page describes the site as “situé face au Jardin des Plantes”, and the garden’s boundary runs along the opposite pavement. Several travel pages place the tea room inside the garden, which sends people through the wrong gate.
There are two doors, and they are not interchangeable. 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire is the commercial entrance for the tea room, restaurant and hammam. 2bis place du Puits-de-l’Ermite, around the corner, is the visitor entrance to the mosque itself. Walking to one when you wanted the other costs about five minutes.
What are the opening hours?
Each of the four things at this address keeps its own schedule, and only the restaurant takes bookings. The tea room has the longest day, running from 9:00 to midnight without a break, every day of the year.
Venue | Heures | Days | Réservation |
Salon de thé (Café Maure) | 9:00 to 00:00, continuous | Every day of the year | No reservations |
Restaurant | 11:30 to 23:30, continuous | Every day of the year | Reservations accepted |
Hammam | 10:00 to 21:00, continuous | Every day of the year | No reservations |
Mosque visit | 9:00 to 18:00 | Daily except Friday and Muslim holidays | Free or guided, ticket at the door |
The mosque closes to visitors on Fridays, the main congregational prayer day, and on Muslim holidays. The tea room, restaurant and hammam stay open on Fridays, because they are not part of the visit route.
Is the hammam open to men or to women?
The hammam is reserved for women only. The operator states this plainly on its own hammam page: “Le hammam est exclusivement réservé aux femmes.” There is no men’s day and no men’s session. A number of English-language guides, including an earlier version of this page, described it as men-only or as alternating by day, and that is wrong.
Two more rules matter before you go. There are no reservations, so you queue and pay at the desk. And the minimum age is 12, with the operator noting that proof of age may be requested at reception. The hammam covers 550 square metres, which the operator describes as the largest in Europe.
Hammam item | Prix |
Entry, towel and a mint tea (entrée simple) | €30 |
Scrub (gommage) with glove and black soap | €20 |
Massage, 10 minutes | €13 |
Massage, 20 minutes | €26 |
Massage, 30 minutes | €37 |
Massage, 60 minutes | €70 |
Facial, 30 minutes | €35 |
Facial, 60 minutes | €70 |
Towel / bathrobe / black soap / gloves | €4 / €5 / €2 / €6 |
Mint tea | €2 |
Package: Bains et vapeurs (entry, scrub, tea) | €50 |
Package: Massage et Détente (adds 10-min massage) | €60 |
Package: Massage et Relaxation (adds 30-min massage) | €80 |
Package: Massage et Saveurs (adds a couscous or tagine) | €90 |
Package: Forfait Zen (adds 60-min massage) | €110 |
Package: Massage et soins du corps (top package) | €140 |
Is the Grande Mosquée de Paris open to non-Muslims and to tourists?
Yes. The mosque sells tickets to the general public regardless of faith, and the visit is either self-guided or with a guide. Visitor hours are 9:00 to 18:00 every day except Friday and Muslim holidays, and the ticket is bought at the door.
Tickets are €5 full price and €3 reduced, the reduced rate covering children, students and groups of ten or more, with accompanying carers admitted free. Many guides still quote €3 and €2, which were the earlier rates; the mosque’s own visitor page now lists the higher figures.
The ticket covers the visit route: the prayer hall under its carved cedar dome, the 33-metre minaret, the cedar-panelled library, the marble Grand Patio with its zellige mosaic, and the Cour d’Honneur, where a gallery leads to the tomb of Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, the mosque’s first director from 1926 to 1954, and to two marble plaques commemorating Muslim soldiers who died for France in the two World Wars. You do not need this ticket to sit in the tea room or eat in the restaurant.
Is there a dress code?
Neither the mosque nor the restaurant operator publishes a written dress code. The tea room and restaurant are ordinary commercial spaces with no stated requirements. For the mosque visit itself, the building is an active place of worship, so covered shoulders and knees are the sensible default, and shoes come off in the prayer hall.
Note the distinction, because it is where most confusion starts: the courtyard you photograph over a glass of tea is a café terrace, not a prayer space. The prayer hall is on the visit route, behind a separate entrance, and normal mosque etiquette applies there.
How do you get to the Mosquée de Paris?
The closest metro is Censier-Daubenton on line 7, a short walk from the door at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. The operator also lists Gare d’Austerlitz on lines 5 and 10, which is about ten minutes on foot around the back of the Jardin des Plantes.
Mode | Line | Stop |
Métro | 7 | Censier-Daubenton |
Métro | 5 and 10 | Gare d’Austerlitz (about 10 minutes on foot) |
Metro (for the mosque visitor entrance) | 7 / 10 | Place Monge / Jussieu |
Bus | 24, 67, 89 | Buffon-La Mosquée |
Bus | 91 | Saint-Marcel Jeanne d’Arc |
Voiture | Public car park | 15 rue Censier, open 24 hours, 7 days |
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The tea room serves mint tea and pâtisseries orientales; the restaurant serves North African main courses. The operator’s published tariff prices a glass of thé à la menthe at €2, which is the one food price it states in writing anywhere on its site.
On the tea room side the pastry counter runs to cornes de gazelle, baklawa, makrout and almond-and-honey cakes. On the restaurant side the operator lists couscous, tagines, grillades, pastilla and keftas, served across 450 covers in indoor salons and an outdoor courtyard. Individual dish prices are not published on the website; the current carte is shown in the restaurant and through the operator’s online ordering page.
One practical note that catches people out: the tea room takes no reservations and the restaurant does. If you want a guaranteed table for lunch or dinner, book the restaurant; if you only want tea and pastries, walk in.
Why does the mosque matter, and what happened in 2026?
The Grande Mosquée de Paris was inaugurated in 1926 as France’s tribute to the thousands of Muslim soldiers who died fighting for the country in the First World War, which makes 2026 its centenary year. The mosque closed to visitors on Monday 13 and Wednesday 15 July 2026 for the centenary celebrations.
Architecturally it is Hispano-Moorish: white domes, a 33-metre minaret, zellige mosaic, hand-worked stucco and ceramic in the Grand Patio, and a roof of wood and emerald tiles. The minbar, the pulpit from which the imam delivers the Friday sermon, was a gift from King Fouad I of Egypt. That decorative programme is why the tea room courtyard photographs the way it does; the tilework is part of the same building campaign.
Five mistakes to avoid
- Turning up at the wrong door. The tea room, restaurant and hammam are at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. The mosque visit starts at 2bis place du Puits-de-l’Ermite.
- Sending a man to the hammam. It is women only, with no men’s day and no men’s session.
- Booking a mosque visit for a Friday. The mosque is closed to visitors on Fridays and on Muslim holidays, though the tea room and restaurant stay open.
- Bringing a child under 12 to the hammam. The minimum age is 12 and reception may ask for proof.
- Budgeting €3 for the mosque ticket. The current published rate is €5 full, €3 reduced.
Who should go, and who should skip it?
Go if you want a long, cheap sit-down in a genuinely unusual room, or if you are visiting the Jardin des Plantes and want somewhere across the road to land afterwards. A glass of tea at €2 buys as much courtyard time as you want, from nine in the morning to midnight, seven days a week.
Skip it if you need a guaranteed table at a set time. The tea room seats 450 alongside the restaurant and takes no reservations, so seating is first-come and the courtyard is at its busiest on weekend afternoons. If you are on a tight schedule between the Jardin des Plantes and the Panthéon, book the restaurant side instead, which does take reservations.
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Where to stay near the Café Maure
The mosque sits on the border of the 5th and 13th arrondissements, between the Jardin des Plantes and Place d’Italie, so most walkable hotels are in the Gobelins and Mouffetard blocks rather than the tourist centre.
Hotel Korner Saint Marcel
Hôtel Saint-Marcel, now trading as Hotel Korner Saint Marcel, is at 43 boulevard Saint-Marcel in the 13th, between Place d’Italie and the Jardin des Plantes and a few minutes from rue Mouffetard. It is the closest of these three to the mosque on foot.
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Hotel Minerve
Hotel Minerve is a three-star on rue des Écoles in the 5th, north of the mosque toward the Sorbonne, with some rooms giving onto a small balcony over the street. It puts you closer to the Latin Quarter than to the Jardin des Plantes.
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Hôtel des Écrivains
Le Hôtel des Écrivains is a three-star at 8 rue Coypel in the 13th, in the Gobelins district a few metres from Place d’Italie. Note that its Booking listing still uses a legacy web address referring to a former name.
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What else is within a five-minute walk?
Almost everything worth pairing with the tea room is inside the Jardin des Plantes, directly across rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, which makes this one of the easiest half-days in the 5th to plan. The 5th also works well on foot, and the mosque is a common stop on a guided walking tour of Paris neighbourhoods.
Grande Galerie de l’Évolution
Le Grande Galerie de l’Évolution is part of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. The building opened as the Galerie de Zoologie in 1889 to a design by Louis-Jules André, closed in 1965, and reopened under its present name on 21 June 1994. The 1793 date often attached to it belongs to the founding of the Muséum itself, not to this gallery.
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Jardin des Plantes
The Jardin des Plantes is the botanical garden of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and sits directly opposite the mosque. Walking the garden costs nothing; its galleries and the Ménagerie are ticketed separately. The tea room is across the street from its southern edge, not inside it.
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FAQ
Do you need a ticket to sit in the Café Maure?
No. The salon de thé and the restaurant at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire are open to anyone without a ticket. The €5 mosque ticket is only for the visit route, which starts at a different entrance at 2bis place du Puits-de-l’Ermite.
Is the hammam at the Mosquée de Paris for men or women?
The hammam is reserved exclusively for women. The operator states this on its own hammam page. There is no men’s day. The minimum age is 12 and proof of age may be requested at reception.
What are the opening hours of the Café Maure?
The tea room is open every day of the year from 9:00 to midnight without a break, and takes no reservations. The restaurant runs 11:30 to 23:30 daily and does take reservations. The hammam runs 10:00 to 21:00 daily.
How much is a mint tea at the Mosquée de Paris?
The operator’s published tariff lists a glass of thé à la menthe at €2.00. Individual pastry and restaurant dish prices are not published on the operator’s website.
Is the Café Maure inside the Jardin des Plantes?
No. It is at 39 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, facing the Jardin des Plantes across the street. The operator describes the site as situated opposite the garden, not within it.
Is the Grande Mosquée de Paris open to non-Muslims?
Yes. The mosque sells visitor tickets to the general public, self-guided or with a guide, from 9:00 to 18:00 every day except Friday and Muslim holidays. Full price is €5 and the reduced rate is €3.
Is the Café Maure wheelchair accessible?
The operator does not publish an accessibility statement for the tea room, restaurant or hammam. Call 01 43 31 38 20 to check current arrangements before travelling.
Sources and how this page was checked
Hours, prices and access rules were read on 4 August 2026 from the two organisations that set them: la-mosquee.com, which runs the tea room, restaurant and hammam, and grandemosqueedeparis.fr, which runs the mosque visit. Where the two disagree with aggregator listings, the operator pages win.
Five claims that appeared in the previous version of this page were removed because they did not survive that check:
- That the hammam is open to men only. The operator states it is reserved exclusively for women.
- That the tea room sits in the middle of the Jardin des Plantes. It is across the street from it.
- That the address is 9 rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. The number is 39.
- That the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution was founded in 1793. That is the founding date of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; the gallery opened in 1889 and reopened in 1994.
- A characterisation of the service as deplorable, which carried no source and was not a judgement this page had any basis to publish.
One discrepancy is left standing rather than resolved, because the operator has not resolved it: la-mosquee.com’s individual venue pages and its site-wide footer give different closing times for the restaurant (23:30 against 22:30) and a different opening time for the hammam (10:00 against 10:30). This page follows each venue’s own page and flags the gap instead of picking a side. Call 01 43 31 38 20 if your plans depend on the last hour.
Last updated 4 August 2026. This update corrected the hammam access rule, the street number, the relationship to the Jardin des Plantes and the Grande Galerie founding date, and added the first published hours, transport and price tables this page has carried. A link in the introduction that pointed to a tour in Abu Dhabi was removed.
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