Best temples in Morocco

In Morocco the most visible religious buildings are largely closed to visitors, since non-Muslims may not enter most working mosques. The great exception is the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, finished in 1993 on a platform over the Atlantic, with a 210 m minaret and guided tours of the prayer hall. Elsewhere the catalogue’s mosques are seen from outside or from the doorway: the twelfth-century Koutoubia, whose minaret is the emblem of Marrakesh; Al-Qarawiyyin in the Fez medina, founded in 859 and often called the oldest university in the world; and the Friday mosques of Chefchaouen, Tangier, Essaouira and Agadir. The Ibn Danan Synagogue in the Mellah of Fez recalls the country’s once large Jewish community.