(The Conversation) — Morocco is grappling not just with the loss of lives from the recent earthquake, but with the destruction of its cultural heritage – a 12th century mosque in the village ...

Though incomparable to the human loss and suffering, the restoration effort is among Morocco’s priorities as it attempts to rebuild. A sign on a road leading to the Great Mosque of Tinmel, which ...

Morocco has started retrofitting 600 of its mosques with renewable energy, switching to efficient LED lighting, photovoltaic electricity, and solar water heating. The initial plan will be ...

Moroccans wear face masks and pray respecting social distancing at the great Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. In Morocco today, around 10,000 mosques have opened ...

Morocco rebuilds mosque razed by earthquake Community. Sep 27, 2024. Hassan Ait Ali Ouhamous, a religious scholar from the region of Al-Haouz, inspects restoration works at the Great Mosque of ...

A wooden structure supports the 12th-century Great Mosque of Tinmel which suffered significant damage during a 2023 earthquake in Tinmel, Morocco, on Sept. 5, 2024.

Morocco's deadly earthquake badly damaged one of the most important historical sites in the High Atlas mountains, an earth-and-stone mosque built by a medieval dynasty that conquered North Africa ...

Hidra works at the Aïn Chock mosque, located in a busy, working-class neighbourhood of Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city. Her domain is the women’s section: a long rectangle of a room above ...

TINMEL, Morocco — The hand-carved domes and brick-laid arches had almost all been put back together when an earthquake shook Morocco so violently that they caved in on themselves and crashed to ...

The Great Mosque of Tinmel had been undergoing a massive reconstruction project when an earthquake shook Morocco's High Atlas mountains. Full Episode. Wednesday, Jul 2.

Morocco's mosques are going green thanks to a new initiative which has already seen 600 places of worship retrofitted with LED lighting, photovoltaic electricity and solar water heating.

Recovered pieces of the Great Mosque of Tinmel, which suffered significant damage during a 2023 earthquake, are collected in the Atlas mountain village of Tinmel, outside Marrakech, Morocco, Sept ...