Hassan II Mosque

Hassan II Mosque is a mosque located on the coast of Casablanca, Morocco, the country's largest mosque, the second mosque in Africa and the 13th in the world. Its Andalusian minaret rises 210 meters (689 feet), the highest religious building in the world.

It was started in 1987 and completed on the night of the Prophet's birth on the 11th of Rabea al-Awal 1414 AH / August 30, 1993, during the reign of the King of Morocco Hassan II.

The buildings attached to the mosque form an integrated cultural complex, built partly on the sea with an area of ​​9 hectares (acres). It includes a prayer hall, ablution hall, water cycle, Quranic school, library and museum. In addition to the decoration of the "glaze" or ceramic mosaic colored on the columns and walls and the corners of the minaret and its importance and drilling on cedar wood, which flattens the mosque and the work of painted plaster painted in Hanaya and cornices.

The 20,000 square meters prayer hall can accommodate 25,000 worshipers and 80,000 worshipers in the courtyard. The mosque is equipped with modern techniques including automatic surface (open and close automatically) and lasers with a range of 30 km in the direction of Mecca.

It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinsot and was built by the French group Bouygues. The project was managed by the Moroccan institution Bimaro.