The 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 built in 1987 and was completed on the night of the Prophet's birth on 11 Rabia I 1414 AH / 30 August 1993, during the reign of King Hassan II of Morocco. [1]
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, toilet, Koranic 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 the cedar wood, which flattens the mosque and the work of painted plaster painted in Hanaya and cornices. [1]
The prayer hall, with an area of 20,000 square meters, accommodates 25,000 worshipers and 80,000 chapels in the courtyard. The mosque is equipped with modern technologies including automatic surface (open and close automatically) and lasers with a range of 30 km in the direction of Makkah. [1]
It was designed by French architect Michel Pinsot and was built by the French group Bouygues. The project was managed by the Moroccan institution Bimaro