14-6 Hassan II Mosque 내부

210m 높이로 우뚝 솟은 첨탑이 먼저 눈에 띈다.

상아색 건물 위를 수놓은 초록의 아라베스크 문양은 이슬람 예술을 한바탕 펼쳐 놓았다.

1993년 완공된 비교적 최신 모스크답게 내부는 각종 최첨단 기술을 자랑한다.

대서양 위에 깔린 유리 바닥에서는 바다에 떠서 기도를 드리는 기분을 느낄 수 있고,

개폐식 천장 덕에 밤에는 쏟아지는 별 아래서 기도를 드릴 수 있다고.

추운 겨울에는 온돌까지 있어 든든하단다. 문제는 무슬림이 아니어서 직접 체험해 볼 수 없다.

Facts About Casablanca Hassan II Mosque

• Hassan II Mosque is the only mosque that non-muslims can visit in Morocco
• Is the  highest religious building in the world,

• Hassan II Mosque is the largest mosque in Morocco and the second largest in Africa,
• Hassan II Mosque was designed by French architect Michel Pinseau,
• Cost of construction exceeded 500 million Euros,
• The roof  of Hassan II Mosque  is retractable so that it can be opened for worshippers to see the stars at night,

• Took 10,000 craftsmen and 3,000 workers six years to build  the Mosque, working 24-hours per day,
• It took it  50 million hours of work to build the mosque,

• The minaret  of Hassan II Mosque   is 210 m tall, and has a  30km laser directed towards Mecca,
• 105,000 worshipers can attend the service (25,000 inside the mosque and 80,000 in the courtyard outside,

The mosque has two basements, much of which has been converted into ablution halls

(one for men and one for women).

The ablution hall houses 45 marble fountains that represent lotus flowers and a total of 600 taps all around.

The arrangement of these rooms allows the many faithful to perform the rite of ablution in better conditions

and to move easily between the ablution hall and the prayer hall.

 

The Hammams are built in the basement of the courtyard of the Mosque, on an area of 6.000 m2. 

They are designed to accommodate 1,400 people equally divided between women and men. 

It is accessed by an enormous staircase decorated with green marble columns 

and friezes finely encrusted with Zellije.
From the reception room succeeds a series of hammam and columns leading to the locker room.

 Each hammam consists, in the pure Moroccan tradition, of three communicating bathrooms, 

each covered by an openwork dome and coated with marl.
Part of the Hammam has been equipped with heated swimming pools for women and men like therapeutic baths.

 

The prayer hall is characterized by its rectangular shape

and the size of its proportions: 200m long, 100m wide and 60m high.

The built area reaches 20,000m² and its capacity is about 25,000 faithful.
The prayer hall is also characterized by its removable roof, covering an area of 3,400m²,

which is able to open in five minutes to transform the center of this room into a large patio.

The channel of fresh water that crosses the latter evokes the Arab riads of Muslim Andalusia.
The roof is adorned with a series of 14 domes (8 hassani and 6 settini type), 5 sheaths, 4 beams

and 50 Murano glass chandeliers of 6m in diameter, 10m in height and a weight of 1200kg each.
The roof covering required the installation of 300,000 tiles made especially of cast aluminum

by the Bouygues group (main contractor), imitating the traditional glazed terracotta tile

from Fez but four times lighter.
For the finishing touches and the religious objects, craftsmen of all the kingdom

contributed to cover more than 53.000m² of carved wood

and more than 10.000m² of zellij representing 80 new patterns.
The large prayer hall is dominated by two mezzanines with a total area of 3,550 m², reserved for women

and connected by four stairs to ablution rooms.