Roches Noires, Morocco

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]

Roches Noires الصخور السوداء
district (borough) of Casablanca
Roches Noires Location in Greater Casablanca
Coordinates: 33°36′N 7°35′W
Country	Morocco
Region	Casablanca-Settat
District	Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi
Population  (2004)
• Total	104,310
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (WEST)

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

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.