The Hassan II Mosque is located in Casablanca (Morocco). Built partly on the sea, it is a religious and cultural complex, built on nine acres and includes a prayer room, a room for ablutions, baths, a Koranic school (madrasa), a library and a museum. The mosque can accommodate 105,000 worshipers and prayer room 25 000 faithful.
The Hassan II Mosque is the third largest in the world, the largest in the Maghreb, and has a minaret with a height of 201 m, the highest in the world. Craftsmen recruited from all the cities of the kingdom had carved 53,000 m2 of wood and assembled more than 10,000 m2 of zellig (ceramics) for the place of worship.
A large sunroof allows according to the wishes of King Hassan II to connect the building to the air, considered one of the three elements beneficial to life, with the land and water.
Designed by architect Michel Pinseau, it was built by the French group Bouygues, project management being provided by the Ministry of the Interior; at the time headed by Driss Basri.
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