Al-Quds Mosque (Casablanca)
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Al-Quds Mosque (Template:Lang-ar), formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite, is a mosque in the Roches Noires neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco. It was originally built as a church, 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 in 1920, copying a church called Église Saint-Martin de Pau, built in 1860 by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
The Church of Saint Margaret was transformed into a mosque in 1981 as part of the Moroccanizaiton policies of Hassan II, which led to a mass exodus of Europeans from Morocco.[2]
Resources
- ^ شاهد.. كنيسة "روش نوار" التي تحولت إلى مسجد, 2017-06-18, archived from the original on 24 مايو 2017, retrieved 2018-10-31
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help) - ^ "Vidéo. Casablanca: "Al Qods", de l'église à la mosquée - H24info". H24info. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
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