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Notre-Dame de Lourdes Church (French: Église Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes de Casablanca) is a modernist Roman Catholic church in Casablanca, Morocco. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was built in 1954 by architect Achille Dangleterre and engineer Gaston Zimmer.
All phone numbers in Morocco are 9 digits in length (excluding the leading 0). Morocco uses a closed numbering plan, i.e. the prefix is not omitted for local calls. This is necessary because the same geographic area can be served by several prefixes. Casablanca, for instance, has 10 prefixes.
In 2022, the U.S. State Department estimated the current number of Moroccan Christians as more than 40,000. [7] Pew-Templeton estimates the number of Moroccan Christians at 20,000. [8] The number of the Moroccans who converted to Christianity (most of them secret worshippers) are estimated between 8,000 [9] –50,000.
The church is located on Rue Es-Siaghine, just west of the Petit Socco square at the center of the Tangier medina. It stands on the former ground of the Swedish legation, [ 2 ] : 768 which had been established there in 1788. [ 3 ]
Yet, at least outside the Islamic majority parts of Northern Africa, the presence of the Catholic Church has grown in the modern era, in Africa as a whole, one of the reasons being the French colonization of several countries in Africa. [1] Catholic Church membership rose from 2 million in 1900 to 140 million in 2000. [2]
The building was commissioned by King Hassan II to be the most ambitious structure ever built in Morocco. [9] It was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau who had lived in Morocco, and was constructed by the civil engineering group Bouygues. [9] Work commenced on July 12, 1986, [13] and was conducted over a seven-year period ...
Ifrane's first public buildings were a post office and a Roman Catholic church. The church, consecrated in 1939, was designed by Paul Tournon (1881–1964), a recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome who had also designed the Sacré Cœur Church in Casablanca. The resort function of the new town was consolidated with the building of a number ...
Calculating the church's average weekend attendance is important since it determines the size of a given church. For example, in the U.S., an average weekend attendance of more than 2,000 people separates a mega church from a large church, and an average weekend attendance between 51 and 300 people defines the large church; while a small church ...