Al-Quds Mosque | |
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مسجد القدس ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ (formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite) | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
Location | |
Location | Roches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco |
Geographic coordinates | 33°35′57.8″N 7°35′00.2″W / 33.599389°N 7.583389°W |
Architecture | |
Type | Mosque |
Style | Gothic Revival |
Founder | Eugène Lendrat |
Date established | 1981 (as mosque) |
Completed | 1920 |
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]
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]