Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca)

Al-Quds Mosque (Arabic: مسجد القدس‎), 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 (formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite)
Religion
Affiliation	Sunni Islam
Location
Location	Roches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Morocco
Geographic coordinates	33°35′57.8″N 7°35′00.2″W
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Gothic Revival
Founder	Eugène Lendrat
Date 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 Moroccanizaiton policies of Hassan II, which led to a mass exodus of Europeans from Morocco.[3]

Resources

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. 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.