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===Islam===
{{Main|Islam in France}}
[[File:Mosque Paris Aug 2006 002.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Grand Mosque of Paris|Grand Mosque]] in Paris]]
[[Islam]] is the third-largest faith in France in the early 21st century. The [[Grand Mosque of Paris|Grand Mosque]] was constructed in Paris in 1929 in honour of French colonial troops from North Africa who fought in the First World War. Arabs from North Africa started to settle in France. In the early 21st century, France had the largest Muslim population (in percentage) of any Western European country. This is a result of immigration and permanent family settlement in France, from the 1960s on, of groups from, principally, former French colonies in North Africa ([[Algeria]], [[Morocco]], [[Tunisia]]), and, to a lesser extent, other areas such as [[Turkey]] and West Africa.<ref>Kidd and Reynolds, 104-5.</ref> The government does not collect data on religious beliefs in census records, but estimates and polls place the percentage of Muslims at between 4% and 7%.<ref>Kidd and Reynolds, for example, give a figure of 4 million Muslims, or 6.9%, based on sources dated 1993, 1994, 1999. (102). See [[Islam in France]] for more on recent estimates.</ref>