Roches Noires or Assoukhour Assawda () is an arrondissement of eastern
Casablanca
Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...
, in the
Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the
Casablanca-Settat region of
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
. As of 2004 it had 104,310 inhabitants.
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.
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.
References
Arrondissements of Casablanca
Neighbourhoods of Casablanca
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