Morocco’s largest city, Casablanca, on the western edge of the country, close to the Atlantic Ocean, is renowned for its impressive and incredible variety of architecture stemming from Moorish, traditional Moroccan and French influences. A vibrant city that boasts modernity whilst maintaining close links to its Muslim Moroccan heritage.
The city boasts the second largest mosque in all of Africa as well as the seventh largest in the world, the Hassan II Mosque, which accommodates up to 25,000 worshippers and is partially built on land and partially over the ocean. Spectacularly, the masjid is a main tourist attraction due to it having the world’s second largest minaret, towering high at 210m