It is a local Friday mosque located on the Grande Rue ("Great Street") of Fes el-Jdid, the palace-city founded by the Marinid rulers.

[3] Henri Bresolette argued that the mosque must date from before 1323 because it is mentioned in a waqf inscription from that year at the Sahrij Madrasa.

[4][1] Georges Marçais suggested, on the basis of its strong similarity to the Sidi Boumediene Mosque in Tlemcen, that it was built by the same architect and under the same ruler as the latter, thus placing its foundation in the reign of Sultan Abu al-Hasan, between 1331 and 1348.

The mosque has three entrances, one to the north on the building's central axis, and two more to the east and west at the courtyard's southern corners.

[8] The interior of the minaret is climbed via a long staircase which wraps around the square-based core of the tower, leading to a platform at the top of the main shaft.

While they appear similar at a glance, each motif is slightly different, featuring a variation of the darj wa ktaf (or sebka) pattern.

[8] Boris Maslow claimed that the southern and eastern sides of the minaret, as well as the secondary shaft at its summit, where damaged at some point and remade in modern times.

[8] The colourful zellij tilework which fills the empty spaces of the darj-wa-ktaf motifs in the middle of the minaret's façades was likely added in the late 18th or early 19th century, perhaps in the reign of Moulay Slimane when similar tile decoration was added to other Marinid minarets (e.g. the Chrabliyine Mosque and the Mosque of Abu al-Hasan).