page_title: Architecture of Casablanca
section_title: Cinemas and theaters
hierarchical_section_title: Architecture of Casablanca / Notable buildings and structures / Cinemas and theaters
caption_attribution_description: English: Building on Mohammed V in Casablanca
context_page_description: The architecture of Casablanca is diverse and historically significant. Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, has a rich urban history and is home to many notable buildings in a variety of styles. Throughout the 20th century, architecture and urban development in Casablanca evolved in a way that was simultaneously specific to the city's contexts, and consonant with international ideas.
  Anfa, as the settlement in what is now Casablanca was known, was built by the Romans according to the Descrittione dell’Africa of Leo Africanus. The city is located at the mouth of Wādi Būskūra on the Atlantic Ocean in the Chaouia plain, known as Tamasna under the Barghawata. It was destroyed by the earthquake of 1755 and rebuilt by Sultan Muhammad III of Morocco, who employed European architects, and it was renamed Ad-dār al-Bayḍā. The sqala, the medina walls, and the two oldest mosques date back to this period.
  The 1906 Algeciras Conference gave the French holding company la Compagnie Marocaine permission to build a modern port in Casablanca.
context_section_description: Cinema Rialto
  Cinema Lynx
  Ciname Empire
  Cinema ABC
  Cinema Vox
  Grand Theatre of Casablanca
  Municipal Theater of Casablanca (1922-1984)
caption: Hippolyte Joseph Delaporte's 1932 Neo-Mauresque Maret Building.
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