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Hassan II Mosque: Towards the entrance
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  • Updated By JLBG on November 4, 2004
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    The soil, as is the building itself, is made of reinforced concrete covered with marble.
    Once you arrive close to the building, you discover that he Mosque,built mainly over the Ocean, is surrounded by the Ocean on three sides. This gives the strange impression as, with the wide esplanade in front, it is separated from the city, to be a "nowhere" place.

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    Hassan II Mosque: General view
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    Coming from the city center of Casablanca, at first, from a certain distance, though huge -but that does not appear immediately- Mosque Hassan II looks like any other important religious building. It has a green topped "minaret" high above the rest of the mostly white Mosque and sits on a large paved esplanade with parts of superb green lawn..

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    Hassan II Mosque: Police
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    In Morocco, police have always been very present. In the past few years it is often less visible but anyway, it discreetly checks that nothing wrong occurs. In front of the mosque, only a few policemen walk across the esplanade, mainly to give information to visitors. However, more substantial police is half hidden in the surrounding.

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    Hassan II Mosque: The main entrance
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    The figure of a person gives an idea of the size of this whole mosque.

    What cannot be seen here is that the inside is light by 50 chandeliers made in Murano crystal, each 6 meters in diameter, 15 meters high and weighting 1,200 kg. The roof, all in aluminum tiles, stands at 60 meters from the soil, weighs 1,100 tons and can open completely in 5 minutes (some documents say 3 minutes!).

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    Hassan II Mosque: Arches
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    The inside can be visited (50 Dh) and can welcome 25,000 persons (20,000 men and separately, 5,000 women, in mezzanines) and the esplanade 150,000 more on it's 20,000 m2. Notre Dame de Paris could be dropped inside the main praying room, 200 x 100 meters!

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    Hassan II Mosque: From the south
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    If you park south to the mosque and walk towards the mosque, it looks as it had been build on the sea ! And actually, this for real. The main part of the Hassan II Mosque was built on pilings, on the ocean, in order to give the impression that by some divine intervention, it was floating on water.

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    Hassan II Mosque: Earthquake proof !
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    All of Northern Africa is submitted to main earthquakes. The African plaque is pushing against the Eurasian plaque. In the recent past, many deadly earthquakes have hit Northern Morocco and Algeria. In 1755, most coastal cities of Morocco were heavily hit. In 1960, Agadir was entirely destroyed (12,000 dead). In 1969, another earthquakes hit the coast with 200 casualties. On February 24th 2004, Al Hoceima, in the North was also severely hit and the death toll was more than 150.
    There is no surprise that the whole mosque has been build earthquake proof!

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    Quartiers des Habous: La Nouvelle Medina(Quartier des Habous)
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    • THE MAIN STREET OF LA NOUVELLE MEDINA - Casablanca
    THE MAIN STREET OF LA NOUVELLE
    MEDINA
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    La Nouvelle Medina (Quartier des Habous = district Habous, Habous, new town) is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) southeast of the centre of Casablanca just behind the royal palace. You can drive there or get a taxi or... take a loong walk.

    I found this district of Casablanca very interesting. It was built in 1923 and was a very modern part of city that time. It contains lovely buildings such as the Mahkama (Court House) built in 1952 in the hispano-mauresque style 1952, as well as a vast variety of handicraft shops. You can find streets with numerous arcades there. This is shopping area. Close to Habous I found a few out of the beaten paths :-).

    One notice: the main (narrow) street was jammed when I drove there, finding a place for parking a car was not so easy which was a little unusual in Morocco.

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    Hassan II Mosque: The minaret
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    King Hassan II, "Commander of the believers", is descending from Mohammed, and wanted to leave to the posterity a monument worthy his reign. It had to be finished for his 60th birthday and the time allotted was pretty tight. When completed, the minaret is the highest in the world (200 m) and can be seen from several dozen of kilometers away.

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    Hassan II Mosque: The other doorway
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    The other main doorway is equally decorated, though a different in the details. Every carving was handmade and more than ten thousands of the best Moroccan craftsmen worked night and day for several years to achieve the whole decoration. It has cost a lot of money, between 450 millions and 2 billions of €uros. For several years, everybody in Morocco had to give from its own will. State servants were strongly "invited" to give one month of salary. Peasant to give their part when entering the souk with their goods, shopkeepers following their income, etc…

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