Mosque Hamouda Pasha is considered to be one of the main attractions and one of the most beautiful mosques in the country. Not for nothing in her first try to get when visiting Tunisia. It was built on the territory of that State in the XVII century, during the reign of the Ottoman Empire.

The architectural ensemble of the mosque in the style of Muslim Baroque, which was distributed in the states of the East at this time due to Turkish influence, and which replaced the ponderous style of Aghlabid era. It draws attention to the marble door and ceiling covered with green glazed tiles and decorated with golden crescents. Elements, two marble columns framing the central niche of the mihrab, and the capitals of the columns of the main hall (prayer room) shows the influence of Italian architecture - stone carving delicate, graceful, there is no feeling of roughness of the stone material on which the work is done.

This Hanafi Mosque ends octagonal minaret. In the center of the mosque is the tomb (gorbet) Hamouda Pasha, one of the most revered and famous Tunisian bey, who lived in the XVIII century. The tomb was built in 1655, and soon from her room - a prayer room - the rest of the ancestors of the dynasty founder of the mosque - Muradidov.

Mosque Hamouda Pasha Mosque became the prototype of Habib Bourguiba in Monastir on the northwest coast of Tunisia.