Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca)
Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
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Al-Quds Mosque (Arabic: مسجد القدس, Berber: ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ), formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite, is a mosque in the Roches Noires neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco. It was originally built as a church built in a Neo-Gothic style, but it was converted into a mosque after Morocco's independence.[1]
| Al-Quds Mosque | |
|---|---|
مسجد القدس ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ (formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite) | |
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  Morocco | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
| Location | |
| Location | Roches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco |
| Coordinates | 33°35′57.8″N 7°35′00.2″W |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Founder | Eugène Lendrat |
| Established | 1981 (as mosque) |
| Completed | 1920 |
History
The Church of Saint Margaret (Église de Sainte Marguerite) was built by a Frenchman named Eugène Lendrat—the founder of the Roches Noires neighborhood—in 1920,[2] copying a church called Église Saint-Martin de Pau, built in 1860 by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.[2]
The Church of Saint Margaret was transformed into a mosque in 1981,[2] at the time of the Moroccanization policies of Hassan II, which led to a mass exodus of Europeans from Morocco.[3]
