Mosquée Ould el-Hamra
Compact eighteenth-century prayer hall rebuilt from its foundations up during a six-year structural restoration.
This guide to Mosquee Ould el-Hamra in Casablanca opens with what looks like a modest eighteenth-century prayer hall and turns out to be scaffolding and modern concrete wearing three-hundred-year-old plaster. It traces the mosque from Sultan Muhammad the Third's rebuilding after the seventeen fifty-five earthquake, through a nineteenth-century patch under Sultan Hassan the First, to the cracked foundations and sagging roof quietly threatening it by the two thousands. It follows the engineers sent in to rebuild it from the ground up, down to the water and sewage lines beneath the floor. It leaves you wondering how long that careful reconstruction actually took.
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