Muhammad Ali Pasha asked the French architect "Pascal Coast" to design the university in the castle in 1820, but the project was stopped. Until the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the year 1830 AD to the Turkish engineer "Yusef Bushnaq" to lay out the design of the mosque, so he quoted the design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Astana, the horizontal projection, including the courtyard and the faqiyyah, with some slight changes. As for the executing engineer, he did not infer his name, but he inferred the name of some of his assistants, some makers and artists
It is sometimes called the Alabaster Mosque or Alabaster because of the frequent use of this type of marble in covering its walls. The successors of Muhammad Ali Pasha took care of the mosque and completed the building, improving it with some simple additions, as well as making it a place to celebrate the annual religious occasions, and they were respectively Abbas.
