Assunna Mosque

Assunna Mosque
مسجد السُّنَّة (Arabic)
ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⴰⵙⵓⵏⴰ (Berber)
The interior courtyard of the Assunna Mosque.
Location
Interactive map of Assunna Mosque

Assunna Mosque (Arabic: مسجد السُّنَّة, Berber: ⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⴰⵙⵓⵏⴰ) is a mosque designed by Jean-François Zevaco in a modernist architectural style in Casablanca, Morocco in 1966. It features brutalist architectural elements such as raw concrete. It is located at the junction of Blvd. 2 Mars and Blvd. Modibo Keïta.

View from the interior prayer space.

It drew inspiration from Oscar Niemeyer's Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dahmani, Iman; El moumni, Lahbib; Meslil, El mahdi (2019). Modern Casablanca Map. Translated by Borim, Ian. Casablanca: MAMMA Group. ISBN 978-9920-9339-0-2.
  2. ↑ "Introduciendo la arquitectura moderna en Marruecos: Jean-François Zevaco". Arquitectura (in Spanish). 31 October 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Carayol, Sébastien (26 January 2018). "Casablanca: le labo Zevaco". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 8 May 2020.

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