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Roches Noires, Morocco

Coordinates: 33°36′N 7°35′W / 33.600°N 7.583°W / 33.600; -7.583
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Roches Noires
الصخور السوداء
district (borough) of Casablanca
Roches Noires is located in Greater Casablanca
Roches Noires
Roches Noires
Location in Greater Casablanca
Coordinates: 33°36′N 7°35′W / 33.600°N 7.583°W / 33.600; -7.583
Country Morocco
RegionCasablanca-Settat
DistrictAïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi
Population
 (2004)
 • Total104,310
Time zoneUTC+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]

References

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  1. ^ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF). Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  2. ^ Abir El (2017-12-17). "Vidéo. Casablanca: "Al Qods", de l'église à la mosquée - H24info". H24info. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
  3. ^ شاهد.. كنيسة "روش نوار" التي تحولت إلى مسجد, 2017-06-18, archived from the original on 24 May 2017, retrieved 2018-10-31
  4. ^ Dahmani, Iman; El moumni, Lahbib; Meslil, El mahdi (2019). Modern Casablanca Map. Translated by Borim, Ian. Casablanca: MAMMA Group. ISBN 978-9920-9339-0-2.