Saint John’s Anglican Church Casablanca
Whitewashed Anglican chapel from nineteen-six, its graveyard predating it by decades.
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This guide to Saint John's Anglican Church in Casablanca opens with a two thousand nineteen newspaper story claiming that workers building on the grounds of the city's oldest church had bulldozed through its graveyard, tombs undisturbed since the eighteen sixties supposedly cracked open. It sets that dramatic headline and its single photograph against what other reporters found when they went and looked for themselves. Along the way it lingers on the church's own three-year wait for a building permit and on a woman named Rose Emily Stage, buried among the older graves. Stand at the wall the photograph was taken behind and judge the gap yourself.
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