The Great Mosque of Brussels began as a panorama pavilion built by Ernest Van Humbeeck and funded by Count Louis Cavens, who later gave the panorama to the Belgian state. The infobox gives 1879 for the original building, but the text says it was built in 1897 for the Brussels International Exposition. The Tunisian architect Mongi Boubaker led the 1978 transformation, which Saudi Arabia financed.
The infobox calls the style Neo-Moorish, and the original used brick, marble and iron. It has one dome and one minaret, and the article gives no dimensions.
The attraction closed in 1963 and the panorama was dismantled in 1971. King Baudouin leased the building to King Faisal in 1967 on a 99-year rent-free basis. Control passed to the Muslim World League in 1983, and Belgium ended the Saudi concession in 2018. The Muslim Executive of Belgium ran the mosque from 2019 to 2023. The article gives no hours.
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