The mosque Hamouda Pasha is considered one of the main attractions and one of the most beautiful mosques of the country. No wonder her first tend to get when you visit Tunisia. It was built on the territory of that state in the XVII century during the reign of the Turkish Empire.

The architectural ensemble of the mosque is made in the style of Muslim Baroque, which was common in the Eastern States at this time due to Turkish influence, and replaced the heavy style of the age Agapitov. Attracts the attention of the marble door and ceilings, covered with green glazed tiles and decorated with Golden crescents. In elements, two marble columns flanking the Central niche of the mihrab, and the capitals of the columns of the main hall (prayer rooms) shows the influence of Italian architecture — stone carving delicate, graceful, there is no feeling of roughness of the stone material, in which the work is done.

This Hanafi mosque ends with an octagonal minaret. In the heart of the mosque is the tomb (gorbet) Hamouda Pasha, one of the most revered and famous beys of Tunis, who lived in the XVIII century. The tomb was built in 1655, and in the near from her room — prayer room - are buried the ancestors of the dynasty of the founders of the mosque — Murdalov.

The mosque Hamouda Pasha became the prototype of the mosque of Habib-Bourguiba in Monastir city on the Northwest coast of Tunisia.