Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca)

Al-Quds Mosque
مسجد القدس
ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ
(formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite)
Religion
AffiliationSunni Islam
Location
LocationRoches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca) is located in Morocco
Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca)
Morocco
Geographic coordinates33°35′57.8″N 7°35′00.2″W / 33.599389°N 7.583389°W / 33.599389; -7.583389
Architecture
TypeMosque
StyleGothic Revival
FounderEugène Lendrat
Date established1981 (as mosque)
Completed1920

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]

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]

References

  1. ^ شاهد.. كنيسة "روش نوار" التي تحولت إلى مسجد, 2017-06-18, archived from the original on 24 May 2017, retrieved 2018-10-31
  2. ^ a b c Abir El (2017-12-17). "Vidéo. Casablanca: "Al Qods", de l'église à la mosquée - H24info". H24info. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  3. ^ Miller, Susan Gilson (2013). A History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139045834. ISBN 978-1-139-04583-4.
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