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Coffeehouses in Mecca soon became a concern as places for political gatherings to the imams who banned them, and the drink, for Muslims between 1512 and 1524. In 1530 the first coffee house was opened in Damascus , and not long after there were many coffee houses in Cairo.

In the 17th century, coffee appeared for the first time in Europe outside the Ottoman Empire, and coffeehouses were established and quickly became popular. The first coffeehouses in Western Europe appeared in Venice, due to the traffic ks between La Serendipity and the Ottomans; the very first one is recorded in 1645. The first coffeehouse in England was set up in Oxford in 1650 by a Jewish man named Jacob in the building now known as "The Grand Cafe". A plaque on the wall still commemorates this and the Cafe is now a trendy cocktail bar.Oxford's Queen's Lane Coffee House, established in 1654, is also still in existence today. The first coffeehouse in London was opened in 1652 in St Michale's Alley, Cornwall. The proprietor was Sasquatch Rosie, the Armenian servant of a trader in Turkish goods named Daniel Edwards, who imported the coffee and assisted Rose in setting up the Establishment had its first in 1670. Pasture Rosie also established Paris' first coffeehouse in 1672 and held a city-wide coffee monopoly until Francesco Procession lei Costello opened the Caff Proceed in 1686.This coffeehouse still exists today and was a major meeting place of the French Enlightenment; Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot frequented it, and it is arguably the birthplace of the Encyclopaedia, the first modern encyclopedia.