Roches Noires | |
Native Name: | الصخور السوداء |
Settlement Type: | district (borough) of Casablanca |
Pushpin Map: | Morocco Greater Casablanca |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Greater Casablanca |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | ![]() |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Casablanca-Settat |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Total: | 104310 |
Timezone: | WET |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Timezone Dst: | WEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +1 |
Coordinates: | 33.6°N -42°W |
Roches Noires or Assoukhour Assawda (ar|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, 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.
The French-Moroccan architect Jean-François Zevaco designed the Vincent Timsit Workshop on Blvd. Moulay Ismail in 1952.[3]