San Buenaventura Church
Deconsecrated nineteenth-century mission church reborn as a youth center hosting sports and craft workshops.
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This guide to San Buenaventura Church in Casablanca follows a Franciscan mission raised around eighteen ninety on land granted by Sultan Hassan the First, once the center of Spanish Catholic life in the city. It traces the congregation's slow disappearance after Moroccan independence, the empty pews of nineteen sixty-eight, and the years the building sheltered homeless families instead of holding Mass. It asks what became of a church that refused to sit empty. Listen for the echo bouncing off the old vaulted ceiling as you take in the space today.
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