Roches Noires or Assoukhour Assawda ( ar, روش نوار or (( ar, الصخور السوداء) is an arrondissement of eastern

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the

Casablanca-Settat Casablanca-Settat ( ar, الدار البيضاء - سطات, ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ - siṭṭāt; ber, ⴰⵏⴼⴰ - ⵙⵟⵟⴰⵜ, anfa - sṭṭat) is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km² ...

region of

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...

. 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 Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style replicating an 1860 church by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, France. The church in Roches Noires was converted into

Al-Quds Mosque Al-Quds Mosque Hamburg (Arabic: , meaning "Jerusalem", or Masjid Taiba ) was a mosque in Hamburg, Germany between 1993 and 2010 when it was shut down by German security officials. The mosque was known for preaching a radical form of Sunni Islam. ...

after Morocco regained its independence. The French-Moroccan architect

Jean-François Zevaco Jean-François Zevaco (,1916–2003) was a French-Moroccan architect born in Casablanca. He is considered an emblematic figure of the modernist architectural movement in Morocco and in Africa, and his legacy is important in terms of the number of ...

designed the Vincent Timsit Workshop on Blvd. Moulay Ismail in 1952.

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Arrondissements of Casablanca Neighbourhoods of Casablanca {{CasablancaSettat-geo-stub