Al-Quds Mosque | |
Native Name: | Arabic: مسجد القدس ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ (formerly) |
Map Type: | Morocco |
Map Size: | 250px |
Map Relief: | yes |
Religious Affiliation: | Sunni Islam |
Location: | Roches Noires, Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco |
Festivals: | --> |
Organizational Status: | --> |
Architecture Type: | Mosque |
Architecture Style: | Gothic Revival |
Founded By: | Eugène Lendrat |
Established: | 1981 (as mosque) |
Year Completed: | 1920 |
Date Destroyed: | --> |
Elevation Ft: | --> |
Al-Quds Mosque (Berber: ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵍⵇⵓⴷⵙ), formerly, 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.
The Church of Saint Margaret was built by a Frenchman named Eugène Lendrat—the founder of the Roches Noires neighborhood—in 1920,[1] copying a church called, built in 1860 by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
The Church of Saint Margaret was transformed into a mosque in 1981, at the time of the Moroccanization policies of Hassan II, which led to a mass exodus of Europeans from Morocco.[2]