This paper considers an observation made by a number of residents of Algerian origin in a Parisian suburb that the area has become increasingly Muslim. This proposal counters recent national quantitative data that propose a decrease in visible expressions of Muslimness in the French public sphere. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the suburb of Petit-Nanterre and socio-spatial analyses, I argue that transnationally-informed manifestations of tradition and the bled gain significance because of the physicality and the socio-economic conditions of the banlieue.