Noor-e-Islam Mosque, Islamic prayer hall in Saint-Denis, Réunion Island, France.

Noor-e-Islam Mosque stands behind a row of columns on rue du Maréchal-Leclerc, its white facade centred on a 32-metre minaret topped with a white bulb and a lightning rod, built to withstand tropical cyclones. Worshippers remove their shoes to enter a rectangular courtyard, wider than it is long, with two ablution basins running beneath the floor slab and blue, white and brown stained glass on its four sides. The ground-floor prayer hall seats 500 under a green carpet patterned with golden colonnades pointing towards Mecca.

In 1892 six Gujarati merchants from Surat, acting for about 120 others, bought the building at 111 rue du Grand-Chemin, now rue du Maréchal-Leclerc, and used it as an informal prayer house for ten years. Governor Beauchamp granted their petition on 8 January 1898, and the mosque, built over seven years to plans by an Indian engineer, was inaugurated on 28 November 1905, 21 years before the mosque of Paris. A fire on 12 October 1974 destroyed the wooden facade; the rebuilt mosque, with a 38-metre commercial facade and a one-tonne minaret, was delivered in 1979.

The name means "light of Islam" in Arabic. The mosque was designated one of the five great mosques of France by the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) when it was formed. Its windows carry the blue, white and red of the French flag, a tribute to the authorities' permission to build.

The entrance is on rue du Maréchal-Leclerc, set back behind a gallery of about half a dozen shops selling toys and perfumes. Shoes are removed before the rectangular inner courtyard, and practising Muslims pass the two ablution basins flanking the main axis. The prayer hall holds 500 seated worshippers.

The facility is managed by the Association Islam Sounnate Djamatte, which also operates an adjoining school that functions under French state partnership. This connection between mosque and educational institution shows how the building serves purposes beyond simple worship.