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Roches Noires, Morocco

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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.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. 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.

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Roches Noires, Morocco
Rue des Français, Casablanca Roches-Noires

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20303 Casablanca, Roches-Noires
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