Roches Noires, Morocco
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Roches Noires
الصخور السوداء | |
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district (borough) of Casablanca | |
  Roches Noires Location in Greater Casablanca | |
| Coordinates: 33°36′N 7°35′W / 33.600°N 7.583°W | |
| Country |  Morocco |
| Region | Casablanca-Settat |
| District | Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 104,310 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
Roches Noires or Assoukhour Assawda (Arabic: الصخور السوداء) is an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. As of 2004 it had 104,310 inhabitants.[1]
A Frenchman named Eugène Lendrat founded the Roches Noires neighborhood and built Église de Sainte Marguerite, a church in Neo-Gothic style replicating an 1860 church by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, France.[2] The church in Roches Noires was converted into Al-Quds Mosque after Morocco regained its independence.[3]
The French-Moroccan architect Jean-François Zevaco designed the Vincent Timsit Workshop on Blvd. Moulay Ismail in 1952.[4]