Controversy Erupts as Casablanca Officials Consider Converting Historic Church to Mosque

The president of the Constitutional Union (UC) group on the Casablanca City Council, Rachid Bouhous, is campaigning for the transformation of the Sacré-Coeur church into a mosque. The idea does not displease the elected members of the Justice and Development Party (PJD).

Built in 1930, the Sacré-Coeur church in Casablanca had been transformed into an annex of the Casablanca Faculty of Law before serving as a meeting and cultural exhibition hall.

For now, the councilors, unanimously, have authorized the continuation of the rehabilitation work on the Sacré-Coeur church entrusted to the local development company, Casa Patrimoine.