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Casablanca and Hassan II Mosque
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- City History
- Casablanca is Morocco's largest city and largest Atlantic port
- Area was originally Berber settlement Anfa, later became pirate base
- Portuguese destroyed Anfa in 1468, new settlement named Casablanca
- City destroyed again in 1755 by earthquake
- French restored city with Moorish-style buildings
- Hassan II Mosque
- World's second largest mosque after Mecca's Sacred Mosque
- Built 1986-1989, officially opened 1993
- Total construction budget reached 800 billion dollars
- Designed by French architect Michel Pinseau, not Muslim
- Features 78 pink granite columns and 30-meter green laser beam
- Half of mosque territory above Atlantic Ocean
- Creates illusion of floating during high tide