The Mosque of Mohammed Ali Pasha is one of the most famous mosques in Cairo, which was built in the period from 1830 to 1848 in the Ottoman style, and was borrowed by the Turkish engineer Yusuf Bashnaq from the design of the Sultanahmet Mosque, sometimes referred to as the Al-Marmar Mosque or Al-Alabaster.
The mosque was built in a section of the land of the palace of Ablaq inside the fortress of Salah al-Din Ayubi, which is currently the effects of the district of the Caliph, and surrounded within the castle mosque Nasser Qalawun, Outside near the wall of the castle is located several other ancient mosques, and continued until the death of Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1848, He was buried in a cemetery which had prepared for himself in the mosque.
It was the largest restoration of the mosque during the reign of Fouad I. The walls of the mosque from inside and outside were covered with Alabaster marble from Beni Suef quarries, as well as the four shoulders of the large dome, and the Egyptians considered, it is a castle because it was built above the fortress of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi.