Whole length 138 meters long and approximately 118 meters, surrounded by three sides - North, West and South - three increases display, each 19 meters approximately, two components with a combined square whose sides measure 162 meters, and mediates the unique Western increase in kind minaret of the mosque, which does not There are analogous to the minarets of Cairo most probably it was built on the foundations of the original minaret of the mosque, because this minaret was built in the Mamluk period, and might have been built on the minaret of the Mosque of Samarra model, a square from the bottom, then cylindrical and ends octagonal topped with a dome and a height of forty meters.
The four points of the mosque characterized by simplicity, not the types of decoration only a row of stucco windows circle the various forms and various covenants, which ends balconies vicious exquisite. The front of each section of the mosque, there is a door in the fence increase - external - in addition to a small opening in the wall using the door, has been leading to the emirate House created by Ahmad Ibn Tulun mosque in the east of that.