The Mohammed V Mosque, is dedicated to the memory of King Mohammed V, wholed prayers here, after delivering his historic speech proclaiming the country’s independence from the French and demanding reunification of Tangier with Morocco. the original mosque was transformed into a church by the Portuguese but, after his expulsion of the English in 1684, Moulay Ismail built a second mosque here, which was enlarged by Moulay Slimane in 1815. On 11 April 1947,